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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOne feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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