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"20 Bernard Berenson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 June 1865. Died: 6 October 1959 | Historian |

Miracles happen to those who believe in them

Miracle happen Who believe
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Consistency Requires you Ignorant today Year ago
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Happy Make Encounter goodness Love
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Can parody Make fun Turn The universe
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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

Complete life Ending Identification Oneself
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity
Literature Comprehensive sense Autobiography Humanity
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Government lasts Under taxed Can defend Themselves
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

When everything Physical Mental Seems diminish
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Between truth The search Choose The second
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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

Never felt Anything enviable In youth Cannot recall
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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.

Psychoanalysts Occupied Minds Patients
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

What man Knows Feels Concerns art
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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?

Enemies Best companions Common interest The eagerness
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
Taste begins Appetite Satisfied
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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.

International affairs Placed Better footing Understood
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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?
Higher function Feel Appreciated Enjoy natural
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Two futures Desire Fate Man's reason
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Life Has taught Our faults Are disliked
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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man

All arts Poetry Music Visible
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
From childhood Dream Life lived Sacrament
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Bernard Berenson Quotes & Sayings