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

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
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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Art Inspirational Reality
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
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
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Airplane Thinking 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.
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Belief Believe Music
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Propensity Reality Share
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
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
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
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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Dream Quality Romance
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
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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Children Goodness Responsibility
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
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
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
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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Lesson Matter Rome