A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
