Silence is the garment of light.
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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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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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Weather creates character.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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What you desire you call into being.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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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