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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Desire creates its own object.
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What you desire you call into being.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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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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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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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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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?
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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