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Jose Bergamin
Spanish
Writer
About the author
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Life
#Race
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Sin
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Despair
#Disillusionment
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Logic
#Devil
#Theology
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Habits
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Dance
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Success
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Perfection
#Water
#Sensuality
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#God
#Light
#Wisdom
#Devil
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Sin
#Forgiveness
#Repentance
#Punishment
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Solidarity
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Woman
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Time
#Nothing
#Fear
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Decision
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Christ
#Ignorance
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Time
#Man
#Fact
#Heaven
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Art
#Attention
#Order
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Art
#Result
#Effort
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Being
#Man
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Civilization
#Weight
#Intelligence
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Advice
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Man
#Men
#Woman
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Talk
#Order
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Belief
#Doubt
#Superstition
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Happiness
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Music
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Literature
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Crime
#May
#Revolution
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Being
#Today
#Man
#Woman
#Question
#Women
#Mistake
#Answers
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Dignity
#Man
#Woman
#Self
#Pride
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#Love
#Sin
#Sensuality
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer
#First
#Music
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin,
Spanish
Writer