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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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
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
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

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