Status Updates From Verdict

KARL. It is so odd to tell the truth and not be believed.

DOCTOR. Love isn’t just glamour, desire, sex appeal—all the things you young people are so sure it is. That’s nature’s start of the whole business. It’s the showy flower, if you like. But love’s the root. Underground, out of sight, nothing much to look at, but it’s where the life is.

KARL: Life does things to us. Ill health, disappointment, exile, all these things from a crust covering over the real self. But the real self is still there.

Rollander: The only way you can learn about life is by experience. The Spanish have a proverb, “‘Take what you want and pay for it,’ says God.” That’s sound, Professor Hendryk, very sound.

[A cursory google search could find no such Spanish phrase, assuming it was something close to "Toma lo que quieras y paga por ello”, dice Dios..]