"To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort"
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"Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end."
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"Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites."
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"Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future."
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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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"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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"All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence."
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"Weather creates character."
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"The past can be tamed and controlled."
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"Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures."
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"The past is a sorry country."
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"my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water)."
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"In memory Venice is always magic."
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"All our loves are contained in all our other loves."
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"Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay."
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"Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul."
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"Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration."
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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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"Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness."
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"Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . ."
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