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Bernard Berenson

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

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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04Undated

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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05Undated

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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06Undated

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

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

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09Undated

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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10Undated

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

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