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Desire creates its own object.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Evil Pain Struggle
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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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Hands Home Regret
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
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
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
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
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
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
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Mistake Past Thinking

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