"This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place."
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"Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them."
"For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon."
"I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice."
"Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes."
"The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners."
"...the tourist Venice is Venice."