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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

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Believe Intestine Mind Patient
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
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
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
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
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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