- Essay: You will easily comprehend. Everything will be enlightened, night will no longer blind your path, nature will fulfill you and every mystery shall be resolved.
- Arianna: My letter won't be as beautiful as yours. I went to the library, and I read lots of love letters by famous women, hoping to copy some. But those writers don't love you as much as I do. So I'd rather use my own words. They'll soon be calling me to dinner, but I want to finish this first. I keep on thinking about last summer and that day we met. We only saw each other for one day, but that was enough for me to understand...
- Giovanni Sermonti: Why aren't you competitive? Don't you ever want to win? You Iost to Stefano on purpose.
- Andrea Sermonti: No, I didn't play so well today.
- Giovanni Sermonti: You play for the fun of it. Like this... You don't play to win. That's the idea behind it. Don't you agree?
- Andrea Sermonti: No.
- Giovanni Sermonti: What?
- Giovanni Sermonti: I always like listening to your stories. But shall we try and see why you've mentioned this today?
- Patient: All these dead people? I don't know. There's no specific reason. People say I'm in shape.
- Giovanni Sermonti: And what do you think?
- Patient: I'm fine. Work's going well. I'm fine. Even if I still think about suicide, and feel that I may well try again. Next time, I might actually succeed. How is it you can live normally and still consider killing yourself? How can that be?