Words are not deeds.

“Tudo isso provém de que eu não me respeito: mas aquele que se conhece pode se e…”

“Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over …”

“What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimeycity …”

“one can’t hold one’s tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling”