Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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