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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

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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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
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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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
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.
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Mistake Past Thinking
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
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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Airplane Thinking Weight

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