Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
BERNARD BERENSONGovernment lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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.
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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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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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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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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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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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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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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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In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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