Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe best work is a fusion of love and praise.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Our 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.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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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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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Desire creates its own object.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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To sleep is an act of faith.
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