Top 62 Jose Bergamin Quotes

#1. What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

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

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#3. Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

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#4. The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

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#5. 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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#6. The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

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#7. Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

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#8. Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

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

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#10. True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

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

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#12. A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

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#13. When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

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#14. 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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#15. Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

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

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#17. All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

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#18. The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

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

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

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#21. Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

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#22. 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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#23. Those who are scandalized by a naked body
thinks the Devil
are easy prey: they are already doomed.

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

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

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#26. To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

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#27. Happiness is always a coincidence.

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#28. Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

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#32. Art is good but it isn't the best.

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#33. When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

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

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

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#36. When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

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#37. Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.

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#38. A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

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

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

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#42. 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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#43. Theology is the logic of the Devil.

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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

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#47. 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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#48. Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

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#49. 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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#50. The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

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#51. 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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#52. The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

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#56. True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

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#57. Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

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

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#60. A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

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#61. Who learns most from a good book is the author.

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#62. A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

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