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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Bernard Berenson

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
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
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
Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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Humanity Literature Writing
One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
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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Appreciate Art Enjoy Value Wonder
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
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
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
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
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

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

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