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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.

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
[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
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
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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Age Desire Excess
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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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Destiny Fate Men
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
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men
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
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
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 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
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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