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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Bernard Berenson

One can repent even of having repented.
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Even Happen One Repent
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Believe Optimistic Positive
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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
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
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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Age Desire Excess
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
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
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
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
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
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
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
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
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

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