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

Bernard Berenson

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Feel Oppressing

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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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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Enjoy
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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Excess
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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 Source
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 May Self
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Rooms
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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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
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?

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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Free Years
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.

BERNARD BERENSON

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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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
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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Fatherhood
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Degrees Language Stones
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Optimistic
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 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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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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