When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Ben Cross: Josef Breuer
Quotes
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Josef Breuer : How could I have given up everything?
Nietzsche : You'd given up everything long before you met me.
Josef Breuer : Yes, but now I have nothing.
Nietzsche : Nothing *is* everything. In order to grow strong, you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness. Learn to face your loneliest loneliness.
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Josef Breuer : [despondently about a patient] I left her weakened. Crippled.
Nietzsche : You are responsible for all of your thoughts and deeds, but she, by virtue of this so-called illness, she is exonerated for everything? Who has damaged whom? Who has weakened whom? Doesn't this crippled person, as you call her, have greater power over you?
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Josef Breuer : I often think of ending my life.
Nietzsche : I cannot help you with this. I have no training.
Josef Breuer : Who is trained? Such healing is not part of the medical discipline.
Nietzsche : What do I know of this?
Josef Breuer : You know more than any man alive. Aren't your books entire treatises on despair?
Nietzsche : I can't cure despair. I only know how to tolerate it.
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Nietzsche : Tell me about you illness.
Josef Breuer : Would it be more efficient to read my previous consultations?
Nietzsche : I'm sure they're excellent physicians, thank you. But I make my own diagnosis before reviewing those of my colleagues, just as I prefer to see a play before reading the reviews.
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Nietzsche : Living safely is dangerous.
Josef Breuer : Living safely is dangerous?
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Josef Breuer : I should have been I before I became we!
Mathilda : Words, words, Josef, you cannot live in words!
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Nietzsche : It's the first time I've revealed my loneliness, it's melting. It's melting away.
Josef Breuer : It's a paradox. Isolation exists only in isolation. When shared it evaporates. My dear friend...
Nietzsche : We *are* friends. I like saying that.
[welling up]
Nietzsche : No one ever said this to me.
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Josef Breuer : I am a scientist yet science has no colour. I need passion. I need magic. That's what Berthe represents. Life without passion, without mystery... who can live such a life?
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[last lines]
Josef Breuer : Have a safe journey, my dear friend.
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Josef Breuer : You write that your mission is to save humankind from illusion, and aimlessness... to create a new code of behaviour, a new morality free from superstition. It's all there! In your books...