There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSONBetween truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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