"Italy is far from hellish. Its got too much style. Neither is it heaven because it's too unruly. Italy is an offbeat purgatory full of proud, tormented souls, each of whom is convinced he has a hotline to the boss. It can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, the course of ten minutes. People who live in Italy say they want to get out, but those who do want to come back. This is not the sort of country that is easy to explain." --Beppe Severgnini, 2006 "To put up a show becomes the only pathetic way to revolt against destiny, to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination." --Luigi Barzini on the Roots of Italian Culture, 1964
"Italy and the spring and first love altogether should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."--Bertrand Russell
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."--Guiseppe Verdi
"Travel is intensified living...and one of the last great sources of legal adventure."--Rick Steves
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