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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

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They should call the good man an ass! They should call the bad ass a man!

‪Platero and I‬ (1917)

He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock.

‪Platero and I‬ (1917)

Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism, absolute heroism.

Transition is a complete present which unites the past and the future in a momentary progressive ecstasy, a progressive eternity, a true eternity of eternities, eternal moments.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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