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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Bernard Berenson

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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
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
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Caricature Doe Fun Parody
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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
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
I 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.
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Age Desire Excess
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

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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