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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

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
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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
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
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
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.
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Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation

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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