Jose Bergamin Quotes

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• Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
• To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
• Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
• Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
• True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
• In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
• 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…
• Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.
• Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
• A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
• Happiness is always a coincidence.
• There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
• The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
• To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
• You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
• The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
• Theology is the logic of the Devil.
• A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
• A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
• A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

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