One can repent even of having repented. - Bernard Berenson

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I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U. S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.

Bernard Berenson

One can repent even of having repented.

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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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