All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Weather creates character.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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