The Last Station Movie Quotes
Leo Tolstoy
"Your youth and your desire for happiness reminds me cruelly of my age and the impossibility of happiness for me." When I was courting Sofya, she was so young and pure, it seemed impossible that I'd ever have her. I didn't want to tell her how I felt and I wanted to tell her nothing else. So I wrote down a string of letters and asked her if she could decipher them. She looked completely confused, thinking it was a game or... I gave her one clue. The firs two Y's, I said, stand for "your youth" and then the most miraculous thing happened. She simply spoke the phrase, my phrase as if she had read my mind. In that moment, we both knew we would always be together. For those first years, we were incredibly happy, terrifyingly happy.
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Leo Tolstoy
Despite good cause for it, I have never stopped loving you.
Sofya Tolstaya
Of course.
Leo Tolstoy
But God knows you don't make it easy!
Sofya Tolstaya
Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life, you are the work of mine. That's what love is!
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Sofya Tolstaya
[to Leo]
Look at me! This is who I am, *this* is what you married. We may be older, maybe we're old, but I'm still your little chicken. And you're still my big cock.
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Vladimir Chertkov
[to Countess Sofya]
If I had a wife like you, I would have blown my brains out. Or gone to America.
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Sofya Tolstaya
Oh, Leovochka, why do you insist on dressing like that?
Leo Tolstoy
What do you mean, like what?
Sofya Tolstaya
Like a man who looks after the sheep!
Leo Tolstoy
It wasn't meant to offend you.
Sofya Tolstaya
You're a count, for God's sake!
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Sofya Tolstaya
I'm your little bird, you know the sounds I make.
Leo Tolstoy
And that was some sort of love call, I suppose?
Sofya Tolstaya
Brought you back to me.
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Valentin
Love and be loved. That's the only reality there is in the world.
Masha
He said that?
Valentin
Yes, Tolstoy said it, but l'm saying it.
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Leo Tolstoy
It doesn't matter. If my heart stopped beating, I'd still go riding today.
Dushan
Your pulse is my responsibility.
Leo Tolstoy
No. It's mine.
Dushan
Fine. If you must ride, I insist you wear a coat. Even the sun is cold today.
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Sofya Tolstaya
[running in with a letter]
Leovochka? Kashnikov wants to buy the rights to your work after your death.
Leo Tolstoy
Then I shall try and die as soon as is convenient.
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Valentin
It's a beautiful day.
Sergeyenko
Yes, but we'll pay for it.
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Sofya Tolstaya
You don't speak, but I hear you. Do you love me, Lyovochka?
Sofya Tolstaya
I never stopped, my little bird.
Sofya Tolstaya
And you will never stop ?
Sofya Tolstaya
No, never.
Sofya Tolstaya
Don't ever leave me again.
Sofya Tolstaya
No, never again.
Sofya Tolstaya
Good... good... let's go home.
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Leo Tolstoy
"Your youth and your desire for happiness reminds me cruelly of my age and the impossibility of happiness for me." When I was courting Sofya, she was so young and pure, it seemed impossible that I'd ever have her. I didn't want to tell her how I felt and I wanted to tell her nothing else. So I wrote down a string of letters and asked her if she could decipher them. She looked completely confused, thinking it was a game or..I gave her one clue. The first two Y's, I said, stand for "your youth" and then the most miraculous thing happened. She simply spoke the phrase, my phrase as if she had read my mind. In that moment, we both knew we would always be together. For those first years, we were incredibly happy, terrifyingly happy.
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Title Card
Everything that I know... I know only because I love. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
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Masha
l had a lover before l came here. He was headmaster of the school where l taught. He was married. He was happily married. lt was difficult. We could make love only at school.
Valentin
At school?
Masha
ln the gymnasium, after the girls had gone.
Valentin
l see. l see.
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Sofya Tolstaya
Vladimir Grigorevich, what a surprise.
Vladimir Chertkov
Sofya Andreyevna. l'm happy to see you.
Sofya Tolstaya
And l'm happy to make you happy.
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Sofya Tolstaya
He's very grateful for the help you've been giving him. He told me that himself. l think he's rather surprised that a young man like you can be quite so diligent. You know, when he was your age, he was whoring in the Caucasus. Couldn't get enough of it. Yes, he wrote all about it. He even gave me a copy, so l could read all the details. Would you like some more jam?
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Vladimir Chertkov
If we can encourage the spread of passive resistance, just think of it, Valentin. Thousands of ordinary Russians casting off centuries of political and spiritual oppression.
Valentin
ln the name of truth and freedom.
Vladimir Chertkov
Truth and freedom. Yes, yes.
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Leo Tolstoy
l don't write for publishers, l write for people.
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Sofya Tolstaya
Do you love her?
Valentin
l think perhaps l do.
Sofya Tolstaya
Yes. lt's not something they'd understand, these so-called disciples of my husband's. They've never understood a word he's ever written. What do they know about love?
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Sofya Tolstaya
Oh, God, this is unbearable. No wonder l feel lonely. l'm surrounded by morons.
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Masha
Yes. Yes. Only for a moment. You forgot your rules and you remembered love.
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Sofya Tolstaya
l love you, darling. Please believe me. Please, please understand me and please forgive my wickedness and my badness.
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Sofya Tolstaya
Darling? Oh, darling.
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Sofya Tolstaya
It's not for lack of land that the muzhiks live in poverty. lt's because they have no willpower and they drink too much.
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Valentin
Do you want to go back?
Leo Tolstoy
No. This life is behind me now.
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Sasha
Oh, you're unbearable.
Sofya Tolstaya
And you are a stone-hearted bitch of a daughter. l lost five children! Why couldn't one of them have been you?
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Valentin
You want to create an icon. And you want people to kneel in front of an image that you create. But he doesn't want that. He never has wanted that. It'll give him no peace.
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Valentin
Masha. Masha! l have - in my heart, l have committed the act of copulation many times! Please know it was never like it was with you.
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Sofya Tolstaya
See, you forget that l'm an experienced reader, so l can read your face, every letter. lt's beautifully clear.
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Leo Tolstoy
I had a dream last night, about a Tartar girl l knew in the war.
Valentin
A girl who died?
Leo Tolstoy
No, no, no. Just a girl l had sexual intercourse with. Sometimes, we did it twice a day.
[Valentin nervously sneezes]
Leo Tolstoy
God bless you. Ah, l've never forgotten our time together. The positions of our bodies, and the taste of her.
Valentin
lt was a long time ago. Really, you mustn't torture yourself.
Leo Tolstoy
Torture? You are a virgin, aren't you?
Valentin
Well, l try to be. l mean, l try to be...
Leo Tolstoy
To what, to be a good Tolstoyan? Let me assure you that l'm not a very good Tolstoyan myself. You should think twice before asking my advice on *anything*. ''Torture.''
[breaks out laughing]
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Valentin
I look into your eyes and l can see the future. l think you're the bravest person l've ever met.
Masha
You amaze me. You believe more than l know how to.
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Masha
He's a sorry, old, tight-assed stick-in-the-mud, but, yes - he's sincere.
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Sofya Tolstaya
You all think he's Christ, don't you? He thinks he's Christ!
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Valentin
Tolstoy does not approve of sexual relations. l know this.
Vladimir Chertkov
He despises them, in fact. Well, l don't mean to belabor the point, but last summer l arranged for a manservant who proceeded to ruin two housemaids, just like that. He was very upset.
Valentin
This would not be a problem with me. l'm a vegetarian. l am celibate. l'm also a vegetarian.
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Leo Tolstoy
We have a great deal in common.
Sofya Tolstaya
You have nothing in common. You are a genius, and he is a sycophant and a pervert.
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Sofya Tolstaya
So many young men nowadays spoil their good looks with loose living.
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Sergeyenko
If you're going to behave like rabbits, you should go live in the woods.
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Sofya Tolstaya
You have no heart for the people who really love you. You'd rather be seduced by charlatans and deluded by flatterers, all in the name of love. You can't even love your own children. You can't even love me.
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Dushan
I'm sorry, but l'm afraid it's time for your enema.
Leo Tolstoy
Don't apologize, my friend. Your enemas have become the news of the world.
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Valentin
Masha. Masha. Oh, Masha.
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Vladimir Chertkov
But sex. You are 23. Not an easy age for abstinence, is it?
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Leo Tolstoy
My manifesto against the government is hard work. They commit their idiotic abuses faster than l can catalog them.
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Leo Tolstoy
l have told you the truth. Now let me work. Will you?
Sofya Tolstaya
Fine, l'll go to the station and l'll throw myself under a train. Madam Tolstoy becomes Anna Karenina. See how the press will like that.
Leo Tolstoy
Oh, this is unbearable. You don't need a husband, you need a Greek chorus!
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Valentin
l think sexual behavior and intercourse, how two men, or two women, or men and women, animals, combine their physical parts, l find it completely neutral.
Masha
Listen to you. You're a prig.
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Sofya Tolstaya
This aria is so beautiful. lt's about a woman who's been abandoned by the man she loves. Everyone finds that very moving - in the opera.
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Sofya Tolstaya
Go ahead. Go ahead. Why don't you give everything we've got to him? Your fat little catamite!
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Masha
What we did is what men and women do. lt's what they have done, it's what they'll continue doing. We touched each other. When we stayed close together, something passed between us. Something real. And that's a betrayal of what? Nothing.
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Leo Tolstoy
Our privilege revolts me.
Sofya Tolstaya
Well, you're the first to the trough! Always have been.
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Vladimir Chertkov
Are you all right?
Leo Tolstoy
l'm a conspirator. Nothing more.
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Dushan
You've forgotten your coat.
Leo Tolstoy
Dushan, are you fretting?
Dushan
Yes, because you refuse to look after yourself.
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Sofya Tolstaya
You think because the peasants are poor, they're somehow morally superior.
Leo Tolstoy
l believe that wealth corrupts us all. Yes, l do.
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Valentin
l think l've read where you say that the physical body is not real. That it's all an illusion.
Leo Tolstoy
Oh, l say a lot of things. But what do you say? What do you think?
Valentin
l don't know.
Leo Tolstoy
l don't know, either.
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Valentin
You say that the movement is about love.
Vladimir Chertkov
And it is. The love that he teaches us. The love that binds all mankind together.
Valentin
l've never met mankind. l've only ever met men or women. lmperfect men, imperfect women.
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Masha
He was searching for freedom. Freedom from anger, freedom from attachment, freedom from all the superstition and the nonsense of the Church. l mean, it moved me so much. And that's what l thought it would be about. l mean, isn't that what it's about? Freedom and love? They mix it all up.
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Leo Tolstoy
lf the peasants had money, they wouldn't surround themselves, as we do, with footmen costing 10 rubles a month.
Sofya Tolstaya
No, they'd spend it on drink and whores!
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Vladimir Chertkov
l hate to say it, but the Countess has become more and more dangerous.
Leo Tolstoy
Oh, not dangerous. She's concerned for the welfare of the family.
Vladimir Chertkov
And we're concerned with the welfare of mankind.
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