Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONto have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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 islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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