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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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Propensity Reality Share
In memory Venice is always magic.
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Magic Memories Venice
All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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Change Permanence Waiting Work
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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Carrying Ideas People
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
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Facts Feelings Mean
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
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Dream Fantasy Police
The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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Falling Love Real Travel
If 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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Lesson Matter Rome
Food is my drug of choice.
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Choices Drug Food
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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Absence Doctrine Tradition
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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Imagination Kindness Pitfalls
Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Children Commitment Hostage
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
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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Hands Home Regret
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Crime Illness Regard
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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Belief Grief Unhappiness
Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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Insanity Lack Proportion
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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Evil Pain Struggle
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
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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Abiding Medicine Soul
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.
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Appetite Satisfaction Sex
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
The past can be tamed and controlled.
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Controlled Past Tamed

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