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Venice: this stinky, slow, sinking, mysterious, silent, weird city (Elizabeth Gilbert)

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Venice seems like a wonderful city in which to die a slow and alcoholic death, or to lose a loved one, or to lose the murder weapon with which the loved one was lost in the first place.

Elizabeth Gilbert (in Eat Pray Love)

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