- Tito Beppi: [Last Lines] The comedy... is... ended!
- [Flik/Tito dies onstage in Simon's arms]
- Young girl: [watching from offstage] That's Flik on the floor.
- Young boy: [watching from offstage] He's playing that he's dead.
- Tito Beppi: Some poor family with too many babes abandoned her - for the Saints to take care of.
- Simon, aka Flok: You mean for us to care for! Give her to the orphanage - women bring bad luck!
- Tito Beppi: No, Simon, what the Saints have sent, sinners can't refuse. I'm going to keep her!
- Luigi: You know - I think you'd be good for me.
- Tito Beppi: And I've been thinking - you'd be good for me.
- Luigi: Shall we try...
- Simonetta: It isn't a dream, Tito - it's real! I'm going to tell Luigi - now! And then Lake Como - you and I!
- Title Card: [First Lines] Spring comes early in the Italian hills. Peasant hearts are light - and the voice of the travelling circus is heard in the land...
- Circus Ringmaster: She is a feather for grace, Tito - that little one! But she looks too young! Fix her hair - make her a woman!
- Luigi: What a lovely child of Nature you are! What an alluring woman you could be!
- [Kisses Simonetta's bare feet]
- Title Card: In the pattern of human life there are many strange threads. Three years later... in the office of a famous neurologist in Rome.