Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
- Jose Bergamin
Art, Never, Result, Simultaneous
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
- Jose Bergamin
Man, Drunk, Goes, Peacetime
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
- Jose Bergamin
How, Nor, Neither, Undo
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
Other, Thirsty, Times, Perfection
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
- Jose Bergamin
Love, Sin, Than, Sensuality
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
- Jose Bergamin
Meal, French Literature, La
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
- Jose Bergamin
Time, Alone, Only, Only Time
Happiness is always a coincidence.
- Jose Bergamin
Happiness, Always, Coincidence
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
- Jose Bergamin
Try, Race, Least, Obstacle
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
- Jose Bergamin
Time, Nothing, Everything, Fearing
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
- Jose Bergamin
Poetry, Born, Poem, Despair
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
German, Equivalent, Amount, Immersed
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
- Jose Bergamin
Ignorance, Christ, Among, Catholics
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
- Jose Bergamin
Habits, Bad, Definition, Bad Habits
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
- Jose Bergamin
Music, Making, Condition, Noise
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
- Jose Bergamin
Light, Another, Principle, Candle
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
- Jose Bergamin
Logic, Devil, Theology
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
- Jose Bergamin
Decision, Before, Once, Deciding
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
- Jose Bergamin
Sin, Original, Most, Thinker
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
Best, Fact, Always, Heaven
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
- Jose Bergamin
Punishment, Only, Offers, Repentance
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
- Jose Bergamin
Always, Implicit, Contains, Threat
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
- Jose Bergamin
Music, Dangerous, Other, Ear
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
- Jose Bergamin
Mind, Basket, His, Size
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
Woman, Very, Appropriate, Neither
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
- Jose Bergamin
Most, Author, Learns, Good Book
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
- Jose Bergamin
May, Crimes, Does, Crime
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
- Jose Bergamin
Art, Tries, True Art, Noticed
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
- Jose Bergamin
Woman, Just One, Does, Slave
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
- Jose Bergamin
Forget, More, Perhaps, Instead
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
- Jose Bergamin
Woman, Self-Love, Confused, Pride
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
- Jose Bergamin
Woman, Mistake, Question, Questioned
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
- Jose Bergamin
Listening, Better, Cover, Ears
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
- Jose Bergamin
Cannot, Cause, Damage, Drinking
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
- Jose Bergamin
Doubt, Leaves, Which, Superstition
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
- Jose Bergamin
Better, Than, Failing, Succeeding
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
- Jose Bergamin
Ready, Fail, Prepared, Be Prepared
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
Own, Only, Them, Rhythm
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
- Jose Bergamin
True, Only, Among, Solitary
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
- Jose Bergamin
Talk, Order, Agree
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
- Jose Bergamin
Matter, Only, One Thing, Only One Thing
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
- Jose Bergamin
Say, Said, Done, Opposite
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