Every Man for Himself (1980)

Nathalie Baye: Denise Rimbaud

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• Denise Rimbaud : People always say - they always say - they say you need someone to lean on. I wanted someone to lean *with*. We've never really leaned on each other. We never leaned on each other. Something seemed to stop us.

• Piaget : Your hair is still lovely, like ebony.

  Denise Rimbaud : You were such a critic of the inheritance system, yet now you act just like your father.

  Piaget : That's true. At first it felt very odd, taking over his business. It was awful. That's all revolution is about. But, it's fine now.

• Piaget : It's the idea of a "novel" that made me so passionate about your letter.

  Denise Rimbaud : That's not passion.

  Piaget : By describing secondary events, you shed light on the main issues and reveal the truth that the secondary role is the main one.

• Piaget : What's going on with Paul?

  Denise Rimbaud : It's over. But no one seems to notice, including me.

• Denise Rimbaud : Why did you keep that picture of me? I don't look like that anymore.

  Piaget : Call it madness.

• Paul Godard : I have eyes and I see what's what.

  Denise Rimbaud : You always wanted love to come from work, things we could do together, not just at night. You said our nights should grow out of our days, not vice versa.

  Paul Godard : It's not me. That's how people live. We both agreed love couldn't survive without a little work. Otherwise it's just bursts of passion - nothing that lasts.

  Denise Rimbaud : It's too hard when it lasts.

• Denise Rimbaud : I want to stop defining things and just do them. Call that what you will.