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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.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
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

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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