Jose Bergamin Zitate auf Englisch

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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

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

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Jose Bergamin

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.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Jose Bergamin

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Jose Bergamin

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Jose Bergamin

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jose Bergamin

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.

Jose Bergamin

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

Jose Bergamin

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Jose Bergamin

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

Jose Bergamin

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Jose Bergamin

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Jose Bergamin

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Jose Bergamin

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

Jose Bergamin