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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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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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Body Hate Weight
There are no inanimate objects.
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Inanimate Object Objects
the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Beautiful Childhood Garden
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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All Lows Rome Things
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Rome Tired Wish
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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Casualties First Truth
All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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Contain Love Other
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
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.
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Cities Garden Travel
The past is a sorry country.
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Country Past Sorry
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Artistic Autobiography Strikes
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect
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
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding

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