Jose Bergamin quotes
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“A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.”
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“Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.”
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“To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.”
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“It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.”
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“Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing”
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“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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“What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.”
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“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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“The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.”
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“A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.”
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“A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.”
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“The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.”
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“When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.”
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“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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“Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.”
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“Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.”
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“When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.”
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“All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.”
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“In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.”
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“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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“Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.”
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“A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.”
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“To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.”
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“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”
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“There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.”
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“A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.”
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“Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.”
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“The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.”
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“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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“You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.”
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“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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“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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“A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.”
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“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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“In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”
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“True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.”
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“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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“Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.”
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“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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“True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.”
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“Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.”
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“Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.”
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“Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.”
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“Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?”
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“Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.”
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“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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“The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.”
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“The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.”
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“Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.”
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“When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.”
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“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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“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
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“Who learns most from a good book is the author.”
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“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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“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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“If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.”
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“Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.”
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“An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.”
-- Jose Bergamin
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