A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
BERNARD BERENSONYou can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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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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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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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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