Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
BERNARD BERENSONInternational 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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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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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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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