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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”.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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
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
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
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
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive

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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