Quotes By Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.

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.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.