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• Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
• The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
• Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell…
• Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and…
• May summer last a hundred years.
• Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.
• I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
• It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language…
• Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
• Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous…
• Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or…
• Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having…

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