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

Bernard Berenson

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

Boast Cry Despair Hope
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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
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
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
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
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
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
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
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
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
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

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

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