"The urban man is an uprooted tree, he……" — Juan Ramon Jimenez
"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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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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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 Cities Quotes
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
— Aristotle
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
— Jane Austen
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As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms…
— Diane Ackerman
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.…
— Michelle Bachelet
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need…
— Cleveland Abbe
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I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that…
— Alec Baldwin
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