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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Believe Happen Miracles Them Those Who

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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.

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Disliked Even Faults Hated Life Me Our Qualities Taught

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

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Consistency Ignorant Requires Today Were Year You

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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Always Boast Cry Despair Except Hope Young

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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Against Capacity Genius Productive Reaction Training

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

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Appreciation Beauty Diminish Else Everything Everything Else Increase Mental Physical Seems

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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.

~Bernard Berenson

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

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Between Choose Search Second Truth

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

~Bernard Berenson

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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

~Bernard Berenson

Topics: Almost Almost Anything Anything Caricature Does Fun Make Parody Turn Universe You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: June 26th, 1865

Died: October 6th, 1959

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