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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
BERNARD BERENSON

Genius Reaction Training
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
BERNARD BERENSON

Childhood Dream Fatherhood
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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.
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Affair People Way
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
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
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 am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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

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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