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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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Bears Face Water
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work

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