One can repent even of having repented.
BERNARD BERENSONLiterature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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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.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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