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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Rome Tired Wish
To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
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 memory Venice is always magic.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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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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Dying Embarrassment Humiliation
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
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
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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Prayer Sometimes Thinking
my love of water … is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position – I enter a fugue state – but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).
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Bears Face Water
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands

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