Jose Bergamin Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
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The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
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Who learns most from a good book is the author.
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
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When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
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You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
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Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
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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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Art is good but it isn't the best.
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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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True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
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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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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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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
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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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Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
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Theology is the logic of the Devil.
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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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An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
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The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
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Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.