"I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like."
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"The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?"
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"Silence is the garment of light."
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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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"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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"One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border."
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"Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all."
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"Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm."
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"We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal."
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"Desire creates its own object."
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"Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret."
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"It's the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive - it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance."
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"There are no inanimate objects."
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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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"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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"In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue."
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"The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies."
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"What you desire you call into being."
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"Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers."
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"Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence."
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