Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThere is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Persecution 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.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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