No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her.” He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the thought of this vulgar woman journeying to places he loved and revered. Why should she not be transfigured? The same had happened to the Goths.
E.M. ForsterMr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.”
Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland! False teeth and laughing gas and the tilting chair at a place which knew the Etruscan League, and the Pax Romana, and Alaric himself, and the Countess Matilda, and the Middle Ages, all fighting and holiness, and the Renaissance, all fighting and beauty! He thought of Lilia no longer. He was anxious for himself: he feared that Romance might die.
Stichwörter: romance italy disgust dentist
Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.
Pietros ManeosStichwörter: rome artist italy conqueror italophile the-eternal-city
Tutt'intorno a noi scorreva la città di Roma, splendida nella sua indifferenza, eternamente sicura di sé, felice di prendersi i nostri soldi e posare per una foto, ma senza avere alla fin fine bisogno di niente e di nessuno.
Gary ShteyngartStichwörter: rome italy italia atmosfera città lazio roma
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
Marsilio FicinoStichwörter: philosophy soul immortality italy renaissance ficino neoplatonism
Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.
Julianne DavidowStichwörter: love existence italy renaissance spiritual-world
Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a crederci il sale della terra."
("We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.")
Stichwörter: illusions self-perception grandeur self-image importance italy self-centeredness sicily leopard gattopardi
Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.
Marsilio FicinoStichwörter: love philosophy magic spirituality italy renaissance
When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!
Barbara ConelliStichwörter: travel italy travel-essays barbara-conelli chique-secrets-of-dolce-vita travel-narrative-nonfiction
Stichwörter: how adventure walking mountains italy europe activity hiking fast abruzzo walking-holiday
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