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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.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Hands Life Minute Passerby Time Unused
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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Life Quality Taught
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
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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Funeral Get Together
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Creative Feeling Free Play Years
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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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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Destiny Fate Men
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
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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Carpe Die Hands Time

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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