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

 

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

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All we really want is otherness, tossing from side to side, and greeting every toss with shouts of welcome, and of contempt for the previous toss.

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All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man. -Bernard Berenson
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I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

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