Disease insanity and death were the angels that attended my cradle and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Death borders upon our birth and our cradle stands in the grave.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

After about the first Millennium Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture which spread throughout Europe much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.