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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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It’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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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