She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385) 
The world is like that incomprehensible and full of surprises .
But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.
Love is not to be proven or measured ... It exists, and that is enough.
Night was running ahead of itself. 
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. 
I said there are certain flowers that wilt if you put them in a vase' (368). 