There are no inanimate objects.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItaly offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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What you desire you call into being.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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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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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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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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