"Must I dwell in slavery's night And all……" — Juana Inés de la Cruz
"Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?"
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Juana Inés de la Cruz
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14 Quotes by Juana Inés de la Cruz
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But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well…
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I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
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Rare is he who will concede genius.
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Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I…
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Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.
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I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
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One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.
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Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
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As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.
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In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
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The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or…
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I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with…
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