Bernard Berenson Quotes
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or…
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard…
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of…
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized…
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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