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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

— Juan Ramón Jiménez Poetry and Literature (1941)

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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.

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

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.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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