One can repent even of having repented.
BERNARD BERENSONTaste begins when appetite is satisfied.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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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.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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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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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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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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