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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Bernard Berenson

How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Average Country Feel Oppressing
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
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
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
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
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
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World

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