To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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The past is a sorry country.
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