Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
From Bernard Berenson
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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