Author: Bernard Berenson

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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