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

Bernard Berenson

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Caricature Doe Fun Parody
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
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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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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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Art Jungle Our Remained World
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
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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Destiny Fate Men
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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Funeral Get Together
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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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