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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest and the great...

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As I got warmed up and felt perfectly at home in talk I heard myself boasting lying exaggerating...

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

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

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

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

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

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

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

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I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objec...

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

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Bernard Berenson

Art critic

Born: 1865-06-26

Died: 1959-10-06

Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance.More