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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONI love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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