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Quotes
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Pierre : If I'm in love, I get hard. If I don't get hard, I'm not in love. Otherwise, you're deceiving yourself. Like a woman who says she still loves you when she's as dry as sandpaper, and you remember how she'd be dripping if you so much as kissed her on the neck.
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Pierre : I know I'll never be a Toynbee or a Braudel. All I have left is... sex... or love. What's the difference? I don't know what's left for me. That's why age leads to vice.
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Pierre : Wittgenstein wrote that... our only certainty is the ability to act with the body.
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Pierre : You lie through your teeth, that's what saves you.
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Pierre : That's when it happened. I fell head over heels in love. Ejaculating while discussing the millennium was intellectually and physically overwhelming.
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Louise : Better to have kids who love you than to end up like Pierre, alone, bitter, without any family.
Pierre : But I do have a family. Here, sitting around this table. A family I love. I feel closer to this family than to my brother the insurance broker, or my parents who could never figure me out, and complain 'cause I don't go to mass. You're my family.
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Pierre : In sex, practice makes perfect. My best lovers have always been those who fucked the most.
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Pierre : I get a kick out of eminent sociologists and psychologists who spew forth theories of sexuality, when I've seen them being flogged with wet towels in a massage parlor.
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Dominique St. Arnaud : You should write a paper on that.
Pierre : 17,000 scholarly articles are published every day. One more or less...
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Pierre : Want me to describe a female fantasy? The female fantasy? The woman is at home in the nest she has so lovingly decorated. Her husband or lover arrives. He's brought flowers and a bottle of champagne. He is extremely nice. They spend a pleasant evening... and make love. End of fantasy. What a bore.
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Pierre : Women live to old age, not men.
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Pierre : [explaining why he doesn't want to have kids] You have to like yourself to procreate. I don't. I'm not optimistic enough.
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Dominique St. Arnaud : [asking for comments on her theory] You haven't said a word about the book.
Louise : I bet they agree with me but are scared to say so.
Dominique St. Arnaud : I think they feel superior.
Pierre : Superior? Why?
Dominique St. Arnaud : [referring to Pierre and Rémy] Because you've both slept with me.
Pierre : What does that have to do with it?
Dominique St. Arnaud : I think that for men like you... love always entails a struggle for power. Rémy's often said he'd like to seduce a big intellectual... I don't know, say...
Alain : Susan Sontag.
Dominique St. Arnaud : Right. It's the urge to appropriate her. To dominate her, almost physically.
Claude : Come on... it can also be the desire to share, to be with.
Dominique St. Arnaud : Perhaps. But I can't trust the disdain of men who've made me come, who've had me.