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Bernard Berenson
American
Historian
About the author
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Life
#May
#Ending
#Self
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Life
#Faults
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Beauty
#Appreciation
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Mind
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Miracles
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#People
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Training
#Genius
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Life
#Dream
#Childhood
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Today
#Consistency
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Truth
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Fun
#Universe
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson,
American
Historian
#Hope
#Despair