Nostalghia (1983)

Erland Josephson: Domenico

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• Domenico : Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination? Here's my new pact to the world: it must be sunny at night and snowy at August. Great things end, small things endure. Society must become united again instead of so disjointed. Just look at nature and you'll see that life is simple. We must go back to where we were to the point where you took the wrong turn. We must go back to the main foundations of life without dirtying the water. What kind of world is this if a madman tells you must be ashamed of yourselves? Music now!

• Domenico : One drop plus one drop makes a bigger drop, not two.

• Domenico : We need bigger ideas.

  Andrei Gorchakov : What?

  Domenico : I was selfish before. I wanted to save my family. Everyone must be saved, the whole world.

• Domenico : What kind of world is this if a madman tells you

  [that] 

  Domenico : you must be ashamed of yourselves?

• Andrei Gorchakov : Smoke. When I don't know what to say I ask for a cigarette too. But I never learned to smoke. It's too hard.

  Domenico : You have to learn to not smoke, to do important things.

• Eugenia : So what did God say to St. Catherine?

  Domenico : "You are she who is not, but I am He who is."