Top 62 Bergamin Quotes
#1. A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
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#2. You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
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#3. When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
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#4. It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
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#5. An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
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#6. When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.
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#7. Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
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#8. A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
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#9. Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
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#10. To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
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#11. In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
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#12. Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.
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#14. 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.
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#15. The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer ...
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#16. In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
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#18. Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
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#19. I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
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#20. The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
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#21. To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
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#22. The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.
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#23. The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
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#24. You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
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#25. Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
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#26. True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
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#27. Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
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#28. The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
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#29. To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
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#30. A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
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#31. Who learns most from a good book is the author.
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#32. A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
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#33. Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
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#34. What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
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#35. Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
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#36. Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
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#37. The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
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#38. A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
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#39. The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
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#40. Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
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#42. If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
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#43. True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
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#44. You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
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#46. When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
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#47. Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
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#48. A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
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#49. Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
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#50. All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
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#51. The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
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#52. There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
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#53. To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
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#54. Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
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#55. When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say What lovely music!
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#56. Those who are scandalized by a naked body
thinks the Devil
are easy prey: they are already doomed.
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#57. Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
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#58. The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
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#59. To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
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#61. Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
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#62. 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.
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