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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll our loves are contained in all our other loves.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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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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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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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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 have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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What you desire you call into being.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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