I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONItalians 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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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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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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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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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Silence is the garment of light.
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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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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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Weather creates character.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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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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