Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
BERNARD BERENSONThe 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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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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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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.
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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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