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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Desire creates its own object Picture Quote #1

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like Picture Quote #1

There are no original ideas. There are only original people Picture Quote #1

Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer Picture Quote #1

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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers Picture Quote #1

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination Picture Quote #1

To sleep is an act of faith Picture Quote #1

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good Picture Quote #1

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

To have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries Picture Quote #1

It’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination Picture Quote #1

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Desire creates its own object (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) There are no original ideas. There are only original people (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) To sleep is an act of faith (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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 (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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 (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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 Quotes) The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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? (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) To have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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 (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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 (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) It’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) 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 (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes) Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination (Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes)

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