Jose Bergamin Quotes
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All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
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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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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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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
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When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
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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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The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
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The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
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Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.
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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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There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
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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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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
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Happiness is always a coincidence.
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Theology is the logic of the Devil.
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Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
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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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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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Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
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The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.
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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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A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
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You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
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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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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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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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