Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONChildren hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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The past is a sorry country.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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