"Como siempre, la consideración de su muerte lo serenaba tanto como lo turbaba la muerte de los demás. Tal vez porque, a fin de cuentas, su muerte era el final del mundo."
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"She was tall and well-made, on an ample scale; her skin looked as if it had the flavour of fresh cream which it resembled, her childlike mouth that of strawberries. Under a mass of raven hair, curling..."
"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change."
"Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so erring, against the inevitable background of sorrow. But that they did not know then; and they were p..."
"The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one or two up there, at the zenith. As always, seeing them revived him; they were distant, they were omn..."
"They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods."
"A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love."
"There had been no enemies, just one single adversary, herself; her future had been killed by her own imprudence, by the reckless Salina pride; and now, just at the moment when her memories had come al..."