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?
BERNARD BERENSONGerman is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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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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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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