One can repent even of having repented.
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.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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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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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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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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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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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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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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