35 Quotes by Juan Ramón Jiménez

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    Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.

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    That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.

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    A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

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    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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