the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIn the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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