To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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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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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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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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