Quotes by Bernard Berenson

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  A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

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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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  Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

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  Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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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.

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

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  Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

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  Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

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  I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

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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.

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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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  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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  The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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  When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.