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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

Bernard Berenson

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
BERNARD BERENSON

Carpe Die Hands Time
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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Age Desire Excess
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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?
BERNARD BERENSON

Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Government Momentary
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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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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?
BERNARD BERENSON

Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
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
German 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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
BERNARD BERENSON

Genius Reaction Training
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSON

Destiny Fate Men

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