Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONIf 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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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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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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One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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