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.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONAll is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.
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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.
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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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Food is my drug of choice.
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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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Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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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’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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The past is a sorry country.
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Italy offers one the most priceless of all one’s possessions – one’s own soul.
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Weather creates character.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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I don’t think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
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