Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.
Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.
Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will
She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.
You really love to gossip, don’t you?” he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.“Yes, I suppose I do,” she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. “You think that’s why I love reading novels so much?
And I don’t want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don’t like that.
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.