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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.

Bernard Berenson

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
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
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
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
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
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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

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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