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Dr. Görtler. Because all events are shaped in the end by magic—
Ormund (scornfully). Yes, I thought we'd come to that. Magic!
Dr. Görtler. Yes. The creative magic of our feeling, imagination and will. These are the realities—our feeling, imagination and will—and all our histories are their dreams.
Ormund. All very easy!
Dr. Görtler (with passion). It is not easy. Life is not easy.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:39AM
Ormund (scornfully). Yes, I thought we'd come to that. Magic!
Dr. Görtler. Yes. The creative magic of our feeling, imagination and will. These are the realities—our feeling, imagination and will—and all our histories are their dreams.
Ormund. All very easy!
Dr. Görtler (with passion). It is not easy. Life is not easy.
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Ormund. Not a chance. I'll never be a great man. There aren't many of them, and you have to stand a long way off to see their true size.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:51AM
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Dr. Görtler. It was not. We must play our parts until the drama is perfect.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:44AM
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Why should this poor improvisation be our whole existence? Why should this great theatre of suns and moons and starlight and have been created for the first pitiful charade we can contrive?
— Jan 06, 2020 11:43AM
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Ormund (after a pause—staring at Dr. Görtler, then with a certain breadth and nobility of manner). New life! I wish I could believe that. They've never told me yet about a God so generous and noble and wise that He won't allow a few decisions that we make in our ignorance, haste and bewilderment to settle our fate for ever.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:43AM
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Dr. Görtler. [...] We must set out each time on the same road, but along that road we have a choice of adventures.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:41AM
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Janet. I'm trying to make myself remember every single line of your face. And I know I shan't. Very soon I shall try to see it again, and there'll be nothing but a blur while hundreds of faces that mean nothing will come between us. It's a hard world for love, Oliver. Even the memory of its face won't stay to comfort us.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:38AM
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Farrant [...]. We still feel the same about each other. Can't you see, Janet, everything's just the same?
Janet (distressed). No it isn't, because now we know more.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:37AM
Janet (distressed). No it isn't, because now we know more.
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Dr. Görtler. Once we know, yes. It is knowledge alone that gives us freedom. I believe that the very grooves in which our lives run are created by our feeling, imagination and will. If we know and then make the effort, we can change our lives. We are not going round and round in hell. And we can help each other.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:35AM
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Dr. Görtler. [...] It was like watching a performance of a play that one has first read carefully.
Janet (wildly). You're talking as if we were marionettes with no minds and wills of our own.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:34AM
Janet (wildly). You're talking as if we were marionettes with no minds and wills of our own.
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Farrant. I don't understand this. Must be some sort of clairvoyance, clairaudience.
— Jan 06, 2020 11:33AM
