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Bernard Berenson [1865-1959] American
Rank: 105
Historian


Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book The Italian Painters of the Renaissance was an international success.

Beauty

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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. Beauty
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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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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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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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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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