Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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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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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Weather creates character.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The past is a sorry country.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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