"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."

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Source : "The world, the flesh & the devil" by Bernard Berenson, (p. 3), 1929.

Bernard Berenson

#Fate Quotes #Men Quotes #Two Quotes

“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?”
“Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.”
“You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.”
“Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal”
“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
“Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more....”
“It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.”

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