Italian Days
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“I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.”
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Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.”
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“Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.”
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“Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“What you desire you call into being.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.”
“In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.”
Source: The Astonishing World: Essays
“Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.”
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Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
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“There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.”
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“Porches are America's lost rooms.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“There are no inanimate objects.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“Insanity is a lack of proportion.”
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Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands
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“Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.”
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“Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.”
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“Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.”
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“In memory Venice is always magic.”
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Source: Off Center: Essays
“All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.”
“The past can be tamed and controlled.”
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Source: The Astonishing World: Essays
“Silence is the garment of light.”
Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.”
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“Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.”