Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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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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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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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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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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