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Truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Silence is the garment of light.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Food is my drug of choice.

The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

It's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to ...

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer ...

Porches are America's lost rooms.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

The past is a sorry country.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

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.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

What you desire you call into being ...

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

To have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...

My mother was my first jealous lover ...

Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...

There are no inanimate objects ...

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

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.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Desire creates its own object.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

The gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.