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What you desire you call into being.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
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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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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Desire creates its own object.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.
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Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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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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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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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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