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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
BERNARD BERENSON

Affair People Way
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
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
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
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
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Caricature Doe Fun Parody
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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
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
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
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.
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Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
BERNARD BERENSON

Carpe Die Hands Time

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