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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Bernard Berenson

There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
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
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appetite Satisfied Taste
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
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
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
BERNARD BERENSON

Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Helping Justification
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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

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