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

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Believe Intestine Mind Patient
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Creative Feeling Free Play Years
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
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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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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.
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Destiny Fate Men
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing

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