My Night at Maud's - Saintliness and Personal Choice in Conversation
Maud:
Don't you want to be a saint?
Jean-Louis:
Not at all.
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My Night at Maud's - The Complexity of Love and Connections
Jean-Louis:
Ideally, one should never have to leave people. One shouldn't have to forget people. There should be one love, no other - not even platonic.
Maud:
Especially not platonic.
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My Night at Maud's - A Tense Moment of Vulnerability and Defiance
Maud:
Don't be childish. Lie beside me. Outside, or inside - if I'm not too repulsive.
Jean-Louis:
I'll take the armchair.
Maud:
You'll get a cramp. Are you afraid? Of yourself? Of me? I swear I won't touch you, and you I thought you had self-control.
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My Night at Maud's - Lessons in Morality from Women
Jean-Louis:
Women have taught me a lot, morally speaking. That sounds...
Maud:
A little vulgar.
Jean-Louis:
Yes. It would be silly to generalize about particular cases but each girl revealed a new moral problem which I had never faced up to before. It would be good for me to be shaken out of my moral lethargy.
Maud:
You could have ignored the physical aspect for the moral.
Jean-Louis:
Yes, but, the moral aspect would never have arisen if - Well, I know it's never impossible but the physical and moral are inseparable, let's face it.
Maud:
Perhaps it was the trick of the devil?
Jean-Louis:
Then I was caught. Yes, in a way, I was caught.
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My Night at Maud's - The Conflict Between Mathematics and Spirituality
Jean-Louis:
Mathematics distract from God. A useless, intellectual diversion - worse than other diversions.
Maud:
Why worse?
Jean-Louis:
Because its completely abstract and thus inhuman.
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My Night at Maud's - The Complexity of Conditional Love
Maud:
What I have against you is your lack of spontaneity.
Jean-Louis:
I open my heart to you. What more do you want?
Maud:
I don't like your love with conditions attached.
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My Night at Maud's - Cold Lips, Cold Feelings
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My Night at Maud's - Challenging Conventional Relationships and Respectability
Maud:
You do shock me.
Jean-Louis:
So you've said.
Maud:
You're the most outrageous person I've met. Religion has always left me cold. I'm neither for nor against it. But people like you prevent me from taking it seriously. All that really concerns you is your respectability. Staying in a woman's room after midnight is dreadful. It would never occur to you to stay because I'm lonely. To establish a slightly less conventional relationship even if we should never meet again. This I find stupid - very stupid and not very Christian.
Jean-Louis:
It's nothing to do with religion. I just thought you might be tired.
Maud:
Do you still think so?
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My Night at Maud's - Confronting Issues in Relationships
Maud: [[w:Don Juan|Don Juan]
What I don't like about you is that you always dodge the issue. You don't face up to things. A shamefaced Christian combined with a shamefaced ].
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My Night at Maud's - Conflicted Feelings About Love and Morality
Maud:
Do you really want my life story? Well, I had a lover and my husband had a mistress. Curiously enough, she was rather your sort: very moral, very Catholic. Not hypocritical, not calculating - very sincere. Yet I hated her like poison.
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