Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

Lhakpa Tsamchoe: Pema Lhaki

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Quotes 

• Pema Lhaki : Still, walking up mountains is a fool's pleasure, Heinrich.

  Heinrich Harrer : Not so foolish, really. Look at this. Go ahead. That's after I climbed the Eiger North Face. That's Olympics. Gold medal. Not important... this.

  Pema Lhaki : Then this is another great difference between our civilization and yours. You admire the man who pushes his way to the top in any walk of life while we admire the man who abandons his ego. The average Tibetan wouldn't think to thrust himself forward this way.

• Heinrich Harrer : You're a seamstress.

  Pema Lhaki : I'm a tailor, sir. The only tailor in Lhasa who has been to Calcutta and can reproduce these silly costumes.

• Pema Lhaki : What about women? Have you met anyone you like?

  Heinrich Harrer : Women. Since I failed miserably with an Austrian wife... an exotic failure with a Tibetan wife seems misguided. But to answer your question, no, I haven't.

  [to Peter] 

  Heinrich Harrer : You?

  Pema Lhaki : A friend's good fortune is a blessing, Heinrich. I'm sorry you resent ours. You must be very lonely and sad.

  [a small pensive smile slowly creases Heinrich's face]