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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
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
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 average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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Average Country Feel Oppressing
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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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Deliberately Home Lying Myself
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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Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Hands Life Minute Passerby Time Unused
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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

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