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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

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
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
BERNARD BERENSON

Carpe Die Hands Time
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
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
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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Deliberately Home Lying Myself
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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

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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