Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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What you desire you call into being.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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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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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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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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Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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The 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?
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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