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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
BERNARD BERENSON

Comparison History Truth
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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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Carpe Die Hands Time
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
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
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

Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?

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