Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. - Bernard Berenson - Quotesmemo.com

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In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.

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Bernard Berenson

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival. . . each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

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

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

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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

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

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In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.

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My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

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That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

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