Jose Bergamin

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

"Happiness is always a coincidence."

"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

"The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair."

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