Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONGreat unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Insanity is a lack of proportion.
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What you desire you call into being.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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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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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Food is my drug of choice.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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The past can be tamed and controlled.
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