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  1. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    Non esiste un ingresso che immetta nella fortezza dell'anima.
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  2. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    Before this I had always held back, had never lived freely, not with Pietro, not even with Palmira, but here, where nothing was known, I did not fear judgment, and because Father and I shared the same sensibilities, all the rigidness of my living melted and I felt myself coming into myself. If it was genuine, if it would last, it was a wonderful feeling.
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  3. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    Should I explain to him Galileo's discovery that we are not what we thought-that our lives are made smaller by the unimportance of our dwelling place on the periphery, like a touch of color at the edge of a painting, contributing to the whole but unnoticed by most?
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  4. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    A moon of startling brightness rose over the rooftops, lifted on a divine, invisible thread...
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  5. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    Sì. Ma la bellezza non è tutto. E' meglio essere assetati di bellezza e comprenderla, che essere belli e basta. Alla fine la vita risulta più ricca. Un giorno forse lo imparerà.
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  6. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    But even one-way love, fleeting love, is better than no love at all. I'm grateful for having had the feeling.
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  7. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    That's what great art is supposed to do-help us to live in the spirit and die at peace.
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  8. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    Palmira. She's like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time.
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  9. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    Look and look and don't ever forget. Now, close your eyes. Here, give me your hand. And just feel. Can you feel the Earth move?
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  10. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    At some times in our lives, our passion makes us perpetrators of hurt and loss. At other times we are the ones who are hurt-all in the name of art. Sometimes we get what we want. Sometimes we pay for another to get what he or she wants.
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  11. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    I leaned out the window to feel the night's deep blue, the same dark air that surrounded him in Genoa or Paris or wherever he was. I would give a great deal to know what he was thinking right at this moment. If a person could know for certain what the other person was thinking or doing, then loneliness might cease to exist in the world.
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  12. Susan Vreeland _ The Passion of Artemisia

    I know. But it's got to be this way, that she isn't sure, so people looking at it a long time from now, women and men too, might feel badly, might even weep that at some ignorant time there was once a woman raped who was pressured, even expected, to kill herself.
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