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No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.

Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
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Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
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
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
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
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
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
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Deliberately Home Lying Myself
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
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
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
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
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

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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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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