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Juan Ramon Jimenez Inspirational Quotes (13)

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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
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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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…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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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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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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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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Love, you are eternal like springtime.
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
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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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Rodin picks a mushroom delighted, and shows it to Madame Rodin... Look, he says excitedly, and that takes but a single night! In one night all these are made, all these lamellas. That is good work.
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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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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
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