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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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
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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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
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
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
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Hands Life Minute Passerby Time Unused
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
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
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
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
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
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life Quality Taught
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational

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