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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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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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