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

Bernard Berenson

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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
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 wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder

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