"“To perform a piece of music means to awaken the written notes, giving each its particular life; to reconstruct, in a…"

"“Writing tries to represent—with conventional signs—the spoken word, which, as we know, exists before it is written."

"“The comic mask suited her face just as much as the tragic one: a face well sculpted, with muscles made elastic and f…"

"“I never heard her speak of triumphs or fame—only of the battles she had fought, and even during her peak years, of t…"