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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONthe islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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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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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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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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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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