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Jose Bergamin [1895-1983] Spanish

Rank: 105
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José Bergamín Gutiérrez was a Spanish writer, essayist, poet, and playwright. His father served as president of the canton of Málaga; his mother was a Catholic.

Fear, Forgiveness, Happiness, Intelligence, Poetry, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.	Poetry	101
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.		102
Happiness is always a coincidence.	Happiness	103
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.		104
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.		105
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.		106
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.		107
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.		108
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.	Fear	109
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.		110
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.		111
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.		112
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.		113
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.		114
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.		115
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.		116
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.	Forgiveness	117
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.	Wisdom	118
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.		119
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.		120
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.		121
Theology is the logic of the Devil.		122
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.		123
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.		124
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.		125
Who learns most from a good book is the author.		126
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.		201
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.		202
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.		203
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.		204
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.		205
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.		206
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?		207
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.		208
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.		209
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.		210
Art is good but it isn't the best.		211
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.		212
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.		213
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.	Intelligence	214
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.		215
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.		216
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.		217
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.		218

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