Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONUnhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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Desire creates its own object.
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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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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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