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

Bernard Berenson

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Boast Cry

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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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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Enjoy
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 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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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Appointed Leisure Use
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 May Self
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry
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 is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Momentary
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Way
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Rooms
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
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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Humble Jobs
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Helping Justification
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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Caricature Doe Parody
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Minute Passerby Unused
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity
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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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 Way

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

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