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“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
Source : Espana, 20 Nov. 1920
#Inspirational Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramón Jiménez (p. 231), 1957.
#Men Quotes
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#Transition Quotes
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“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
Source : Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.
#Grace Quotes
#Culture Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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“…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Light Quotes
#Infinite Quotes
#Ends Quotes
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“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Stars Quotes
#Moon Quotes
#Sky Quotes
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“Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Country Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Rights Quotes
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“The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Mother Quotes
#Flower Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Men Quotes
#He Man Quotes
#States Quotes
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“The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Mean Quotes
#Desire Quotes
#Haste Quotes
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“A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Would Be Quotes
#Paradise Quotes
#Fantasy Quotes
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“I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Cutting Quotes
#Each Day Quotes
#Hours Quotes
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“I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Sea Quotes
#Land Quotes
#Rose Quotes
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“Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Nostalgia Quotes
#Infinite Quotes
#Terrible Quotes
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“Love, you are eternal like springtime.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Love Quotes
#Love You Quotes
#Springtime Quotes
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“To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Causes Quotes
#Apprenticeship Quotes
#Born Quotes
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“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
#Hate Quotes
#Forgiving Quotes
#Calm Quotes
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“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”
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Juan Ramon Jimenez
Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.
#Technology Quotes
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