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One can repent even of having repented.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
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.
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Art Helping Justification
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
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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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational

One can repent even of having repented.

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