“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”

— José Martí

"I dream awake" ["Ismaelillo"]
As quoted in Great Hispanic-Americans (2005) by Nicolás Kanellos, Robert Rodriguez and Tamra Orr, p. 72

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Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853–1895

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