"[Describing his house:] It is a library with……" — Bernard Berenson

"[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached."

— Bernard Berenson

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32 Quotes by Bernard Berenson

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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired…
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or…
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness…
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self…
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to…

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search… — Paul Auster
When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. — Antonio Banderas
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these… — Martha Beck
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof… — Claude Bernard
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. — Ambrose Bierce
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to… — Sara Blakely
Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached. — David Brenner
Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing. — Gary Busey
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which… — John le Carre
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of… — Helena Bonham Carter
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is… — Chanakya

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