Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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