Gertrud (1964)

Ebbe Rode: Gabriel Lidman

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• Gertrud Kanning : I was thinking about your creed, remember?

  Gabriel Lidman : I don't know what you mean.

  Gertrud Kanning : No, one never remembers everything, but the creed went: 'I believe in the pleasure of the flesh and the irreparable loneliness of the soul.'

  Gabriel Lidman : Oh yes. That sounds like me.

• Gabriel Lidman : My life's epitaph, "in vain."

• Gabriel Lidman : Nothing happens like we think it should.

• Gertrud Kanning : You look as if something unpleasant has happened to you.

  Gabriel Lidman : Yes. I was in bad company last evening, but it was my own fault. I don't want to think about it. It's over. Everything is nothing.

  Gertrud Kanning : In the older days, you always spoke of your life's work. You've become a great and famous man and now everything is nothing. What's the matter, Gabriel?

  Gabriel Lidman : Oh, I'm feeling old.

• Gabriel Lidman : Nothing's like one thinks.

  Gertrud Kanning : No. nothing's ever like one thinks.

• Gabriel Lidman : He bragged about his lovers.

  Gertrud Kanning : No, that wasn't nice.

  Gabriel Lidman : No. In this mixed company, in this atmosphere of drinking, playing and whoring around, he spoke aloud of his latest conquest. And he named her, her beloved name.

• Gertrud Kanning : Your work divided us, and honor and fame and money. You desired these. Love had become a burden for you. You wanted pleasure of the flesh, not love.

  Gabriel Lidman : It's the terrible truth.

• Gabriel Lidman : You taught me love is everything. We shouldn't be alone. I have been alone much too much. We shouldn't be just one of many. We need to be one of two.

• Gabriel Lidman : I hear you're to be a minister.

  Gustav Kanning : It almost looks that way, if one can believe what they says in the papers.

  Gabriel Lidman : One has to. One must trust something in this world.