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Historian Quotes
Category:
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Date of Birth:
June 26, 1865
Date of Death:
October 6, 1959
Nationality:
American
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Bernard Berenson

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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.
Bernard Berenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson

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

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

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


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