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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.

Bernard Berenson

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
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
In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.
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Enchantment Movement Painting Source Space
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
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
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
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
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
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
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
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
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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House Library Rooms
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
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Believe Intestine Mind Patient
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men

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