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“NINA. Your play is very hard to act; there are no living characters in it.
TREPLIEFF. Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.”
― The Seagull
TREPLIEFF. Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.”
― The Seagull
“The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed. The flowers that died would bloom again another year, the same birds build their nests, the same trees blossom. That old quiet moss smell would linger in the air, and the bees would come, and crickets, the herons build their nests in the deep dark woods. The butterflies would dance their merry jug across the lawns, and spiders spin foggy webs, and small startled rabbits who had no business to come trespassing poke their faces through the crowded shrubs. There would be lilac, and honeysuckle still, and the white magnolia buds unfolding slow and tight beneath the dining-room window. No one would ever hurt Manderley. It would lie always in its hollow like an enchanted thing, guarded by the woods, safe, secure, while the sea broke and ran and came again in the little shingle bays below.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.”
― The Seagull
― The Seagull
“We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. We had to endure it alone, we had to put up this show, this miserable, sham performance for the sake of all these people I did not know and did not want to see again.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Dacă pronunți cuvântul MOARTE într-un spital, nimeni nu aude. E sigur că se lasă tăcerea și-apoi se schimbă subiectul.”
― Oscar et la dame rose
― Oscar et la dame rose
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