From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
BERNARD BERENSONI 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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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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