the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONKindness 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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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