Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIt’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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