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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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Danger Pitfalls Way
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
My mother was my first jealous lover.
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First Jealous Mother
Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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Belief Faith Understanding
To sleep is an act of faith.
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Act Faith Sleep
Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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Calm Numbness Violence
Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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Food Gay Informal Relationship
Silence is the garment of light.
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Garments Light Silence
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
Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Possession Priceless Soul
to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.
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Crisis Stress Trouble
All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Creativity Ideas Success
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
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Dubious Evil Faces
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
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Air Fire Islands
I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.
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Architecture Boundaries Perfect

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