Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
BERNARD BERENSONI never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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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.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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