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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Bernard Berenson

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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Art Instrument Mind Technique
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
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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During Early Fussed Hurried Minute
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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
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
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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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
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
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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Affair People Way
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
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
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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Destiny Fate Men
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
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

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

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