What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONThe 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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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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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There are no inanimate objects.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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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.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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