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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.

Bernard Berenson

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.
BERNARD BERENSON

During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
BERNARD BERENSON

Boast Cry Despair Hope
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
BERNARD BERENSON

Comparison History Truth
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Affair People Way
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
BERNARD BERENSON

Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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 of her.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
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
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
BERNARD BERENSON

Caricature Doe Fun Parody

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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