Jose Bergamin Quotes

• The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

• Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

  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

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

• Happiness is always a coincidence.

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

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

  Jose Bergamin

• A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

  Jose Bergamin

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

  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

Jose Bergamin (37)

Birth:	1895
Death:	28th August, 1983
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Writer, Playwriter

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