The Unbearable Lightness of Being Movie Quotes
Tereza
I know I'm supposed to help you, but I can't. Instead of being your support, I'm your weight. Life is very heavy to me, but it is so light to you. I can't bear this lightness, this freedom... I'm not strong enough.
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Tereza
I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.
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Tomas
You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.
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Sabina
I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's bright, handsome and he's crazy about me. And, he's married. There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat.
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Tomas
I must go.
Sabina
Don't you ever spend the night at the woman's place?
Tomas
Never!
Sabina
What about when the woman's at your place?
Tomas
I tell her I have insomnia... anything. Besides, I have a very narrow bed.
Sabina
Are you afraid of women, Doctor?
Tomas
Of course.
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Tereza
I was forced to love my mother, but not this dog. You know, Tomas... maybe... maybe, I love her more than I love you. Not more. I mean in a better way. I'm not jealous of her. I don't want her to be different. I don't ask her for anything.
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Sabina
I really like you, Tomas. You are the complete opposite of kitsch. In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster.
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[first lines]
First Title Card
In Prague, in 1968, there lived a young doctor named Tomas...
Tomas
Take off your clothes.
[line recurs several times during film]
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Tomas
Some people never change. Some people are always scoundrels.
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Pavel
Do you know why I love Mephisto? Because he's very bright, but, at the same time,
[gesturing for emphasis]
Pavel
he doesn't know anything! After all, he doesn't know that life is impossible here now. Nothing left here. The church is gone.
[shrugging]
Pavel
No place to drink beer now.
[he drinks his bottle of beer very quickly]
Pavel
It's good... very good.
[slurping]
Pavel
If you ever change your mind, it won't be easy to leave.
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Sabina
It's not here. You must have come without your sock.
Tomas
How can I have come without it? I wouldn't wear only one sock, would I?
Sabina
You've been *very* absent-minded lately. Always in a hurry. Always looking at your watch.
[as he sighs impatiently:]
Sabina
I'll lend you one of my stockings.
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Tereza
[lamenting]
What am I going to do? Take pictures of naked women? Why does everybody want to see pictures of naked women? Are they that interestink?
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Sabina
It's good to see you.
[chuckles happily]
Sabina
How are you?
Tomas
Fine. I'm fine.
Sabina
Did Tereza come with you?
Tomas
Of course.
Sabina
Good. How is she?
Tomas
She's... so-so. She's okay. She's looking for a job.
Sabina
Good. I'd like to see her sometime.
Tomas
Of course. What about you?
Sabina
Fine. I'm fine.
[nods]
Tomas
Good.
Sabina
I met another man.
Tomas
Uh-huh.
Sabina
He's the best man I've ever met.
Sabina
He's bright, handsome...
Tomas
Uh-huh.
Sabina
... good... And he's crazy about me.
[nods]
Tomas
Good.
Sabina
And he's married.
Tomas
Good.
[smiles]
Sabina
There's only one think.
[Tomas looks at her expectantly]
Sabina
He doesn't like my hat.
Tomas
Your hat. Your hat makes me want to cry, Sabina.
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Tomas
I don't think we should wait.
[Karenin whimpers]
Tomas
If we do, she'll have to go through terrible pain.
Tereza
Yeah. You should do it yourself.
Tomas
Yeah.
[stands up to go fetch the hypodermic syringe]
Tereza
[to haggard-looking Karenin]
Don't be scared. Don't be scared, Karenin. You won't feel any pain there. It'll be beautiful there. You'll have cows to chase...
[the dog whimpers]
Tereza
and Mephisto will be there. Don't be scared. Don't be scared. Don't be scared.
[barely audible whisper:]
Tereza
Don't be scared...
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[she rebuffs his advances What's wrong?]
Tereza
Your hair smells of a...
Tomas
What?
Tereza
... of another woman's sex!
[as he sniffs his fingers]
Tereza
I thought you had come back here for me!
Tomas
I did come back here for you, Tereza.
Tereza
Then why do you keep seeing other women?
Tomas
I don't know what to say to you.
[shakes his head]
Tereza
I know, I know. You've explained it to me a thousand times. A thousand times.
[runs her fingers through her hair]
Tereza
There is love and there is sex. And sex... is entertainment, like football. I know it's light.
[shakes her head]
Tereza
I wish I could believe you, but... How can someone *make* love without *being* in love, I just don't know.
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