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

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 am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
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
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
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
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
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
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

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

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