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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
Desire creates its own object.
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Desire Object
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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Lesson Matter Rome
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears Face Water
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
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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Cities Garden Travel
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
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
There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Coming Home Place Travel
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
Weather creates character.
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Character Create Weather
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things

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