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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men
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
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
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
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
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
How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
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
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth

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