"The background reveals the true being and state……" — 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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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 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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I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of…
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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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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and…
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
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I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family…
— Michele Bachmann
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A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives…
— Christian Bale
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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that…
— Eric Bana
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all…
— Dave Barry
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means…
— A. C. Benson
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I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
— Christina Aguilera
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
— Eli Broad
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I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.
— Sophia Bush
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