The Fire Within (1963)
Tony Taffin: Brancion
Quotes
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Alain Leroy : I left my youth for another life.
Brancion : You turn your back. You reject adulthood. You're stuck in adolescence. Hence your anxiety. It's hard to be a man. You have to want to be one.
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Alain Leroy : I've had enough. I'm calling it a day. I refuse to grow old.
Brancion : You miss your youth as if you'd lived it to the fullest.
Alain Leroy : It was a promise. And a lie. I was the liar.
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Cyrille Lavaud : Hong Kong is overrated. Oriental eroticism, based on my own little experience, is nothing like what they say.
Maria : But there's Chinese erotica.
Brancion : There's nothing erotic about it. Eroticism is a Western invention, a Christian concept based on ideas of good and evil, transgression and original sin. These concepts don't exist there.
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Brancion : You work in Versailles?
Alain Leroy : I don't work.
Brancion : Private income?
Alain Leroy : I'm sick.
Brancion : So that's why.
Alain Leroy : What?
Brancion : Why you look so pale. What's the problem?
Alain Leroy : My heart.
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Brancion : Chinese libertines are pure hedonists for whom love is a pleasure which they seek to refine. It's something esthetic, whereas for us it's a concept.
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Brancion : Where did all this start? If I knew, maybe I could help you.
Alain Leroy : Alcohol was in my blood before I realized it.