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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Creative Feeling Free Play Years
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
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Appreciate Appreciation Beauty
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
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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Appear Believe Fear Mary Prayer
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
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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Funeral Get Together
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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