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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Artist Husband Movement
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Belief Believe Music
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Abiding Medicine Soul
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
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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Hands Home Regret
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden

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