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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Bernard Berenson

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSON

Destiny Fate Men
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.
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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
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
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Government Momentary
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
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 ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification

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