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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
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
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Abiding Medicine Soul
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
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
What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Country Lost Rooms
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
[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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Belief Believe Music

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