it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe past can be tamed and controlled.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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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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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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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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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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