There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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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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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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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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Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique – without which however it cannot exist at all.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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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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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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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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