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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Bernard Berenson

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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
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
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
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
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
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
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
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
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
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
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
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

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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