Quotes by Jose Bergamin

• Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
• The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
• The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
• There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
• 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.
• To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
• To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
• To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
• To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
• True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
• When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
• Who learns most from a good book is the author.
• You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
• You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
• 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.
• True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
• Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
• The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
• A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
• A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
• Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
• A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
• Happiness is always a coincidence.
• If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
• In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
• It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
• Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
• Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
• Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
• The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
• Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.