My mother was my first jealous lover.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Desire creates its own object.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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