Author: Bernard Berenson

Quotes

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

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

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

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Bernard Berenson

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