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.
BERNARD BERENSONThere are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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One can repent even of having repented.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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