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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.

Bernard Berenson

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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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Aging Die May Self
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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
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

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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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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