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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONPersecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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What you desire you call into being.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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