Weather creates character.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONOur 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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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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it’s perfectly possible to hate one’s fat and to love one’s body at the same time.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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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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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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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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Silence is the garment of light.
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What you desire you call into being.
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There are no inanimate objects.
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Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
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The past is a sorry country.
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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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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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