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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONRome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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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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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Desire creates its own object.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Weather creates character.
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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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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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