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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

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
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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Age Desire Excess
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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Carpe Die Hands Time
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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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Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Hands Life Minute Passerby Time Unused
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
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
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
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

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