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.
BERNARD BERENSONWho will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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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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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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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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