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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 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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
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
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
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
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men

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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