"I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see……" — Juan Ramon Jimenez
"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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15 Quotes by Juan Ramon Jimenez
Juan Ramon Jimenez has 15 quotes on this site.
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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
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Love, you are eternal like springtime.
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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire…
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A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be…
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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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The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess…
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The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia…
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Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the…
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
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To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but…
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
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