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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Bernard Berenson

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
BERNARD BERENSON

Carpe Die Hands Time
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Helping Justification
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.
BERNARD BERENSON

Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Creative Feeling Free Play Years
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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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Country Degrees Giving Language Stones

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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