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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Propensity Reality Share
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
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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Cities Garden Travel
What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Call Creativity Desire
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Casualties First Truth
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Dream Quality Romance
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Dubious Evil Faces
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
[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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Belief Believe Music
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Possession Priceless Soul
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Art Inspirational Reality
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
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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Sex Sports Water