Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIt’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Weather creates character.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Desire creates its own object.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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