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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
BERNARD BERENSON

Art Concern Men
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Creativity Ignorance Inspirational
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
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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Country Degrees Giving Language Stones
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
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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Age Desire Excess
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Healing Passion Sorrow Stress

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