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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In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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