Jose Bergamin Quotes

• A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

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• The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

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

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• Who learns most from a good book is the author.

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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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• Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

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• True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

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

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

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• To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

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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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• To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

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

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• Theology is the logic of the Devil.

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• The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.

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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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• 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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Jose Bergamin (37)

Birth:	1895
Death:	28th August, 1983
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Writer, Playwriter

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