# Quote — Rosario Ferré, Sweet Diamond Dust

> Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them. ("Sweet Diamond Dust")

- Author: [Rosario Ferré](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rosario-ferre.md)
- Book: [Sweet Diamond Dust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rosario-ferre/sweet-diamond-dust.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rosario_Ferr%C3%A9#Sweet_Diamond_Dust:_And_Other_Stories_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rosario-ferre/sweet-diamond-dust/every-country-that

## More from this book

> [He] worshiped her; her merest whim was a matter of dogma to him. If he lived in a world of fantasy in which art had taken the place of religion, that was all right with her. After all, I can help him be happy in life as well as in death, she thought. Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any. ("Isolda's Mirror")

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> Literature is prophetic-life often lives up to fiction ("Preface: Memoir of Diamond Dust")

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> "Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist," he said with a suave smile. ("Isolda's Mirror")

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