War and Peace (1965)

Lyudmila Saveleva: Natasha Rostova

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• [Prince Andrei is dying] 

  Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Natasha... I love you too much. More than anything in the world.

  Natasha Rostova : And I! But why too much?

  Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Why too much? Well, what do you think? What do you feel in your soul, deep in your soul? Shall I live? What do you think?

  Natasha Rostova : I'm sure of it.

  Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : How good that would be.

• Natasha Rostova : Do you ever feel as if there were nothing more to come? Nothing. Everything good has already happened. Doesn't it make you sad?

• Natasha Rostova : Sonya, how can anyone sleep? See how lovely it is. How wonderful the world is! Wake up, Sonya! There never has been a night like this. Look at the moon. How simply perfect. Come here, my dear. Come. Do you see?

• Natasha Rostova : Do you think he's very much in love? Was anybody ever in love with you like that? And he's very nice. Very, very nice. But he's not quite to my taste. He's so narrow, like the dining-room clock.

• Natasha Rostova : Is it possible no one will come up to me? Is it possible no one will notice me?

• Natasha Rostova : Stop laughing. You're shaking the bed. You're awfully like me, just such a another giggler!

• Natasha Rostova : There is today, there is tomorrow, there is eternity. And there was yesterday and the day before.

• Natasha Rostova : Is it possible that this is me, that I am to be the wife, the equal of this strange, charming, intelligent man whom even my father looks up to? Is it true that I can no longer be frivolous? I'm grown up now. I must answer for my every deed and word.

• Natasha Rostova : Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot but know? Why speak when words cannot express what one feels?

• Natasha Rostova : If you only knew how happy I am! You don't know this kind of love.

• Maria Dmitrevna Akhrosimova : He's a scoundrel! A blackguard!

  Natasha Rostova : He is better than all of you!

• Natasha Rostova : If only he would come soon. I'm afraid he never will. The worst of it is I'm growing old. I'll lose all my charm. Perhaps he'll come today, this very minute. Perhaps he came yesterday and I've forgotten.

• Pierre Bezukhov : Were you in love with that vile man?

  Natasha Rostova : Don't call him vile!

• Natasha Rostova : I think that when one goes on and on recalling things - recalling everything - one at last begins to remember what happened before one was born.

  Sonia Rostova : It's metempsychosis. The Egyptians believed that our souls inhabited the bodies of animals.

  Natasha Rostova : No. I don't believe that we were ever animals. I am sure we were angels somewhere out there and have been here before and that's why we remember things.

  Nikolai Rostov : If we were angels, why did we fall so low? This can't be.

  Natasha Rostova : Not lower. Who said we were lower? How do I know what I was before? If the soul is immortal. If I'm to live forever, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

• Natasha Rostova : I thought that we were riding along and imagining we were going home. But we were really going heaven knows where. And finally we arrived and found that it wasn't home but an enchanted kingdom. And then I was thinking... No, nothing else.