Juan Ramon Jimenez

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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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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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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The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

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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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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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Literature is a state of culture, poetry a state of grace, before and after culture.

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Quotes by Juan Ramon Jimenez