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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
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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Rome Tired Wish
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Fusion Praise Work
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Falling Love Real Travel
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
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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Abiding Medicine Soul
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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Artist Husband Movement
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep

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