[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
BERNARD BERENSONEnemies 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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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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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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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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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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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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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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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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