Jose Bergamin Quotes

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

Woman, Confused, Pride

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

Drunk, Coward, Goes

Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin

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

Sin, Punishment, Repentance

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

Doubt, Place, Belief

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

Original, Sin, Poet

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

Different, Weight, Loses

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

Sometimes, Times, Water

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

Failing, Succeeding

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

Music, Making, Condition

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

Advice, Piece, Threat

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Jose Bergamin

Knows, Nor, Neither

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

Men, Woman, Become

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

Ignorance, Christ, Among

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

Talk, Order, Agree

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

Art, Effort, Result

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

Music, Dangerous, Ear

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

Choose, Literature, Spanish

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

May, Revolution, Impossible

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

Women, Today, Woman

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin

Everything, Matter

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

Love, Worse, Sin

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

Time, Best, Fact

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

Poetry, Born, Despair

Theology is the logic of the Devil.
Jose Bergamin

Devil, Logic, Theology

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Type: Writer

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