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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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All is waiting and all is work all is change and all is permanence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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