I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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