the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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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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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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