Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONViolence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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What you desire you call into being.
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Weather creates character.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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