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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Weather creates character.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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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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