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“Still, I will say that the same thing which has helped generations of Sicilians hold their dignity has helped me to recover mine - namely, the idea that the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love