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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

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
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
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Believe Intestine Mind Patient
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
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
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 BERENSON

Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Helping Justification

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