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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
[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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Belief Believe Music
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition

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