Quotes By Jose Bergamin

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

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

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

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

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

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.

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.

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.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

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.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.