Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
BERNARD BERENSONGerman 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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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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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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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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