"Dissimulating means drawing a veil composed of honest shadows, which does not constitute falsehood but allows truth s…"

"Keep calm. You are speaking of love, you are not loving."

"From the way he recalls it on the Daphne, I tend to believe that at Casale, while he lost both his father and himself…"

"If it seems strange that during a week or more on board the ship Roberto had not succeeded in seeing everything, suff…"

"We have said that he had no particular inclination not to believe what the Jesuit was telling him. But often he enjoy…"

"I lack the courage to summarize all of Roberto's summary, so I will only mention the fourth side, which supposedly ex…"

"But an amorous symbol is forgiven many things, and it never ceases to attract poets."

"The dove is there to signify that the world speaks in hieroglyphics, and there is a hieroglyph that itself signifies …"

"Indeed, as he sees it distant not only in space but also (backwards) in time, from this moment on, whenever he mentio…"

"Sir," Pozzo said, "be so kind as to make way for us, for we must go and take up our proper position in order to fire …"