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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
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 no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Ideas Original People
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
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Sex Sports Water
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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Accountants Beggar Unhappiness
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
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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Care Sports Water
it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Body Hate Weight
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
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
One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Borders Pulse Travel

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