Quotes By Jose Bergamin

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.