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One can repent even of having repented.

Bernard Berenson

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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
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
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
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
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training

One can repent even of having repented.

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