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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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Carpe Die Hands Time
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
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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Affair People Way

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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