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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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Sex Sports Water
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
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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Lesson Matter Rome
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
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Care Sports Water
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
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

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

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