One can repent even of having repented.
BERNARD BERENSONPsychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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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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