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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.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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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Aging Die May Self
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
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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Destiny Fate Men
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Creative Feeling Free Play Years
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
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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

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