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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.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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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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In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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To sleep is an act of faith.
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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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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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