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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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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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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
Desire creates its own object.
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What you desire you call into being.
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Call Creativity Desire
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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Children Goodness Responsibility
Weather creates character.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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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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Anarchy Fun Serious Work
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
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
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
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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Cities Garden Travel
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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
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
Every generation reinvents the wheel – and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman’s burdens.
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Act Add Generation Rehearsal Wheel
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other

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