Rizals heroism is the heroism of a writer. But it should be understood that his art was not that of the professional writer, one who thinks or feels in order to write, but that of a man overflowing with love, who writes because he has thought and felt so deeply. And this is a very important distinction—as Schopenhauer points out: To think in order to be able to write, and to write because one has been able to think. Rizal as a poet, was a hero of thought, and not a man of action, but the master of that which is an act of thought: The Word. — From the English translation of Miguel de Unamunos essay, Rizal: The Tagalog Hamlet gov.ph/rizal-monument/essay-unamuno.php
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