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What you desire you call into being.

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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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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