Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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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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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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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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