Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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What you desire you call into being.

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What you desire you call into being.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.

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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Responsibility
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.

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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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