I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONTo sleep is an act of faith.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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