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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Weather creates character.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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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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