International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
BERNARD BERENSONMiracles happen to those who believe in them.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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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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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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One can repent even of having repented.
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