My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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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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