From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
BERNARD BERENSONWhen everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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