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The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

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You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

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I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

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Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

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To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but so...more