- Dott.ssa Giovanna Braibanti: Why did she hit him? Moralism doesn't help to understand. The greatest act of love one can do towards others is to observe them, listen to them, both what is said and what is unsaid. She was deaf and blind, Bianca, she should have hit herself.
- Dott.ssa Giovanna Braibanti: Do you like Tolstoy?
- Bianca Bevilacqua: YES
- Dott.ssa Giovanna Braibanti: Do you know what the greatest force of the human being is? The most crushing, the most peremptory?
- Bianca Bevilacqua: No
- Dott.ssa Giovanna Braibanti: Weakness