"The greatest assassin of life is haste, the……" — Juan Ramon Jimenez
"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
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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 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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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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More Assassin Quotes
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with…
— Tryon Edwards
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I…
— Russell Brand
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
— Malcolm Lowry
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential…
— Sergio Leone
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.…
— Alan Barth
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In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
— Unknown Author
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