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

Bernard Berenson

There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
BERNARD BERENSON

Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
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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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Average Country Feel Oppressing
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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Age Desire Excess
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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Carpe Die Hands Time
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
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
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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Affair People Way
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

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

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