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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Bernard Berenson

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 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.
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Appointed Confidence Leisure Use
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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

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