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Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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.
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Art Inspirational Reality
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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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Bears Face Water
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage

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