18 Quotes by Juana Inés de la Cruz


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    and it is not enough in the world for a wise brain to be ridiculed, it must also be wounded & mistreated; a head that is a treasury of wisdom should not expect any crown other than one of thorns. What garland can human wisdom expect when it sees what divine wisdom received?

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    Inclinéme a los estudiosDesde mis primeros añosCon tan ardientes desvelos,Con tan ansiosos cuidados,Que reduje a tiempo breveFatigas de mucho espacio.(...)

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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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    Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

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