Jose Bergamin

“Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.”

“An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.”

“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.”

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

“Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.”

“A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.”

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

“Art is good but it isn't the best.”

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

“When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.”

“The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.”

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

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

“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.”

“The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.”

“Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?”

“Who learns most from a good book is the author.”

“A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.”

“Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.”

“It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.”