Desire creates its own object.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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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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