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“.. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition. I had wanted to become something—here was the point-only because I was afraid that Lila would become someone and I would stay behind. My becoming was a becoming in her wake. I had to start again to become, but for myself, as an adult, outside of her.”

”… And as I was speaking I seemed to perceive something that at that moment not even he knew: Lila had affected him, seriously; Pietro had grasped her exceptionality so well that he was frightened by it and now felt the need to vilify her…And to protect me he overdid it, he slandered her in a confused way he wanted me to be disgusted by her and expel her from my life.”