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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
Jose Bergamin
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin
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Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Jose Bergamin
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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin
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Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
Jose Bergamin
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It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin
8.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin
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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.
Jose Bergamin
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Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Jose Bergamin
11.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
Jose Bergamin
12.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Jose Bergamin
13.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin
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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.
Jose Bergamin
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Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Jose Bergamin
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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.
Jose Bergamin
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Jose Bergamin
18.
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.
Jose Bergamin
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A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin
20.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Jose Bergamin
21.
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Jose Bergamin
22.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Jose Bergamin
23.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Jose Bergamin
24.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Jose Bergamin
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True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
Jose Bergamin
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Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
Jose Bergamin
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Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
Jose Bergamin
28.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
Jose Bergamin
29.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
Jose Bergamin
30.
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
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The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Jose Bergamin
32.
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
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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.
Jose Bergamin
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A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
Jose Bergamin
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Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
Jose Bergamin
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When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
Jose Bergamin
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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.
Jose Bergamin
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Art is good but it isn't the best.
Jose Bergamin
39.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
Jose Bergamin
40.
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
Jose Bergamin
41.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
Jose Bergamin
42.
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!
Jose Bergamin
43.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
Jose Bergamin
44.
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
Jose Bergamin
45.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
Jose Bergamin
46.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
Jose Bergamin
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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.
Jose Bergamin
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All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
Jose Bergamin
49.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
Jose Bergamin
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What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
Jose Bergamin