As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
Bernard BerensonA complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard BerensonI would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson