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

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
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
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
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
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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth

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