Jose Bergamin
Happiness is always a coincidence.Collection: Happiness
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.Collection: Art
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.Collection: Forgiveness
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.Collection: Poetry
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.Collection: Intelligence
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.Collection: Motivational
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.Collection: Confused
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.Collection: Success
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.Collection: Love
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuingCollection: Mean
Who learns most from a good book is the author.Collection: Book
Theology is the logic of the Devil.Collection: Devil
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.Collection: Water
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.Collection: Sin
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Inspirational
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.Collection: Doe
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.Collection: Music
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.Collection: Hope
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.Collection: Reason
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.Collection: Men
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.Collection: Dance
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.Collection: Stars
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?Collection: Agreement
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.Collection: Men
When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.Collection: Sports
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.Collection: God
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.Collection: Advice
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.Collection: Art
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.Collection: Knows
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.Collection: Animal
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.Collection: Way
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.Collection: Ignorance
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.Collection: Thoughtful
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.Collection: Noise
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.Collection: Men
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.Collection: Love
The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.Collection: God
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.Collection: Men
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.Collection: Ignorance
Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.Collection: Healthy
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.Collection: Definitions
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.Collection: Spiritual
Art is good but it isn't the best.Collection: Art
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.Collection: Matter
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.Collection: Believe
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.Collection: Decision
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.Collection: Opposites
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.Collection: Music