Letter from an Unknown Woman - The Pain of Unrecognized Love
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
Oh, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - A Love Unrecognized and Longing for Connection
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
Now I'm alone. My head throbs and my temples are burning. Perhaps God has been kind, and I too have caught the fever. If this letter reaches you, believe this - that I love you now as I've always loved you. My life can be measured by the moments I've had with you and our child. If only you could have shared those moments, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost. If only...
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - Unrequited Love and Lost Memories
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
I'd come to tell you about us, to offer you my whole life, but you didn't even remember me.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - The Impact of Small Moments on Life
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - Truth and Freedom in New Beginnings
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
Well...I...I only told him the truth...I told him I wasn't free. My poor parents, for them this was the end. For me, it was a new beginning.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - Life in a Garrison Town at Eighteen
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
You who have always lived so freely, have you any idea what life is like in a little garrison town? I was eighteen now and was expected to take my place in society.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - Devotion Through Self-Improvement and Sacrifice
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
Yes, I was blushing, and hard as it may be for you to realize, from that moment on I was in love with you. Quite consciously, I began to prepare myself for you. I kept my clothes neater so you wouldn't be ashamed of me. I went to dancing school. I wanted to become more graceful and learn good manners for you. And so I would know more about you and your world, I...I went to the library and studied the lives of the great musicians of the past. Though I was not able to go to your concerts, I found ways of sharing in your success.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - The Duality of Birth and Consciousness
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
I think everyone has two birthdays, the day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life. Nothing is vivid or real in my memory before that day in Spring when I came home from school and found a moving van in front of our building. I wondered about our new neighbor who owned such beautiful things.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman - A Letter of Unrequited Love
Lisa Berndle: [voiceover]
By the time you read this letter, I may be dead. I have so much to tell you and perhaps very little time. Will I ever send it? I don't know. I must find strength to write now before it's too late, and as I write it may become clear that what happened to us had its own reason beyond our poor understanding. If this reaches you, you will know how I became yours when you didn't know who I was or even that I existed.
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Suspicion - The Allure of an Undetectable Poison
Isobel Sedbusk:
Imagine a substance in daily use everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable after death.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
Is whatever it is, painful?
Isobel Sedbusk:
Oh, not in the least. In fact I should think it'd be a most pleasant death.
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Suspicion - Moral Perspectives on Intentional Harm
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
When he enticed his victim across the footbridge, knowing that the bridge has been sawn through...
Isobel Sedbusk:
He also knew that his victim couldn't swim. Don't forget that.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
Well, what I want to know is this. Would you call that an actual murder?
Isobel Sedbusk:
Well, from a moral standpoint there's no question at all. It is murder.
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Suspicion - Facing Difficult Choices in Uncertain Times
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Well, if the worst comes to the worst and there's no other way out, I'll have to...
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
What?
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Borrow some more.
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Suspicion - Trust and Unhappiness in Relationships
Johnnie Aysgarth:
He doesn't like me.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
I know.
Johnnie Aysgarth: [Speaking to portrait; To Lina]
He doesn't trust me from here to there. Do you? Well, you're right. I can only bring her unhappiness. Well, warn her. Speak up, man. It's your last chance. Hear him?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
Very distinctly.
Johnnie Aysgarth:
He's not exaggerating a thing, dear. It's all true, every word he isn't saying.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
I love him, father.
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Did you see him jump?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
I did.
Johnnie Aysgarth: [Speaking to portrait; He begins tapping on the portrait and it falls off the wall]
Well, watch this one. Sir, I have the honor of asking for your daughter's hand in marriage. Well, what do you say to that? My oh my. You heard him that time, didn't you?
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Suspicion - Control and Comparison in Relationships
Johnnie Aysgarth:
What do you think of me by contrast to your horse?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
If I ever got the bit between your teeth, I'd have no trouble in handling you at all.
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Suspicion - The Mystery of Ucipital Mapilary
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Don't do that.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
Why not?
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Because your ucipital mapilary is quite beautiful.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
What's an ucipital mapilary?
Johnnie Aysgarth:
That.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
You don't need to touch it.
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Suspicion - Misunderstandings in Intimacy and Appearance
Johnnie Aysgarth:
You thought I was going to kiss you, didn't you?
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
Weren't you?
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Of course not. I was merely reaching around you, trying to fix your hair.
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
What's wrong with my hair?
Johnnie Aysgarth:
Well, I'm glad you asked me that. It would've been extremely discourteous for me to bring the subject up. Your hair's all wrong. It has such wonderful possibilities that I, well, I got excited. For the moment I became a, a passionate hairdresser.
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Suspicion - Concern Over Timeliness and Appearance
Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth:
I must go now or I'll be late to luncheon. Anyway, if my father saw me come in both late and beautiful, he might have a stroke.
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Rebecca - Lost Chances for Happiness
Mrs. de Winter:
Maxim, can't we start all over again? I don't ask that you should love me. I won't ask impossible things. I'll be your friend, your companion. I'll be happy with that.
Maxim de Winter:
You love me very much, don't you? But it's too late, my darling. We've lost our little chance at happiness.
2nd Mrs. de Winter:
No, Maxim, no.
Maxim de Winter:
Yes. It's all over now. The thing has happened, the thing I've dreaded, day after day, night after night.
2nd Mrs. de Winter:
Maxim, what are you trying to tell me?
Maxim de Winter:
Rebecca has won. Her shadow has been between us all the time, keeping us from one another. She knew that this would happen.
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