Quotes from Jose Bergamin

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 offer.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

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

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

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

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

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

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

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

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

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

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

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

Art is good but it isn't the best.

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

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

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

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

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.