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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Bernard Berenson

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Average Country Feel Oppressing
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
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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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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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Deliberately Home Lying Myself
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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Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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
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
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
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
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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Believe Intestine Mind Patient

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

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