Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
BERNARD BERENSONPsychoanalysts 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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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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