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“But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.”

Quote by Erica Jong

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Erica Jong

Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'. more

“And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.”

Hands Faces Tenderness Sunny Melting Chins Caress Parsnips

Book:Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus

“Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima”

Feels Shoulders Over You Venice Crooked Domes

Author:Jan Morris

“My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!”

Feels Beautiful Faces My Own Sea Fans Wind Breaths Native Veins Breeze Calmness Venice Sea Breeze

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.”