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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

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life Quality Taught
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
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
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
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

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