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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON

Children Goodness Responsibility
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Dream Quality Romance
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Looks Single Women Thinking
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Falling Love Real Travel
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Art Inspirational Reality
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
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
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
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls – their riches – in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.
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Cities Garden Travel

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