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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

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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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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