Loving Couples (1964)
Gio Petré: Angela von Pahlen
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Quotes
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Lt. Bernhard Landborg : There's not much you can do alone except die.
Angela von Pahlen : I don't like riddles.
Lt. Bernhard Landborg : And I don't like cold reason. *Feel* for God's sake. Feel!
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[last lines]
Angela von Pahlen : Does one have to be happy?
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Angela von Pahlen : The world's not up to much.
Petra von Pahlen : It never will be.
Angela von Pahlen : I see I'll have to change you first. You're so sad.
Petra von Pahlen : No, I'm quite content in a melancholy kind of way.
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Adele Holmström - née Silfverstjerna : Wait till *you're* married. You can't trust anyone.
Angela von Pahlen : I'll only trust myself.
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Angela von Pahlen : Women always say love's all that matters. It isn't, is it, Petra? I refuse to talk of love. I refuse to think of love. One can't afford to be unhappy.
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Angela von Pahlen : Marriage - it's like falling asleep for the rest of your life.
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Mrs. Landborg : The three things I need most as an artist: my model, my mother and this old hag.
Angela von Pahlen : Shh!
Mrs. Landborg : She can't hear. My model gives me inspiration. My mother gives me complexes. And I flirt with the hag for self-torment.
[kisses his mother, turns back to Angela]
Mrs. Landborg : She gives me money.
Angela von Pahlen : You're immoral.
Mrs. Landborg : You flatter me.
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Angela von Pahlen : Stanny, don't let her treat you that way. One must fight to become a real person.
Stanny, Bernhard's sister : I'm not strong enough.
Angela von Pahlen : Everyone is.
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Olaf Landborg : I love all women. Even you little Angela. Though you're not yet a woman yet.
[looks down at her chest]
Olaf Landborg : Or are you?
Angela von Pahlen : No, not yet.
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Petra von Pahlen : [watching Stellan prancing about] He's a bit touched.
Angela von Pahlen : Perhaps all men are. Men, what are they anyway. I've quite forgotten.
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Mrs. Landborg : Who's that?
Angela von Pahlen : A married woman. Therefore unhappy.
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Lt. Bernhard Landborg : Time is short. One must treasure it and when I see how people waste it, I think of the girl who longed for love but didn't dare.
Angela von Pahlen : Women are like that.
Lt. Bernhard Landborg : No, but girls are. Women are braver.
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Angela von Pahlen : We women mustn't be selfish. We fight to stand on our own feet then a man comes and ruins it all.
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Angela von Pahlen : That awful supper! I wanted to be with you. I saw you go.
Thomas Meller : They won't like it.
Angela von Pahlen : Be brave, you said.
Thomas Meller : You'll be sorry.
Angela von Pahlen : *Feel*, you said too.
Thomas Meller : An apt pupil.
Angela von Pahlen : A good teacher.
Thomas Meller : The teacher should keep things to himself.
Angela von Pahlen : But that's why I'm here.
Thomas Meller : He has a wife in a mental home and a small son and disappears when things get too hot. All the traits and alibis of a careless seducer. And whose fault *is* it all? Yours. You *are* a nuisance.
Angela von Pahlen : For 18 years they've been telling me I'm like them. I want a new teacher and that's you. I don't care if you *are* a seducer.
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Angela von Pahlen : I'm just finding out how complicated happiness is.
Thomas Meller : Happiness is only a part.
Angela von Pahlen : You said it's the whole world.