When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Katheryn Winnick: Lou Salome
Quotes
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Lou Salome : [about Nietzsche's advances] I wanted to learn, not to submit.
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Lou Salome : Fascinating lecture to fall on so few ears. Why are people so afraid of you, Professor?
Nietzsche : Oh, Truth is a fearsome thing.
Lou Salome : Why do you say, 'God is dead', and not that He never existed?
Nietzsche : What do you think?
Lou Salome : That God has ceased to be a reckoning force in people's lives.
Nietzsche : An interesting interpretation.
Lou Salome : But if God is dead, then everything is permissible. No morals, no rules. Without God, who will organise our society? What is the solution to your 'Godless' proposition?
Nietzsche : [laughs] Well, from what stars have we dropped down to each other here?
[kisses her hand]
Nietzsche : Auf wiedersehen!
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[first lines]
Lou Salome : [writing a letter] Dr. Breuer, I must see you on a matter of life or death. Meet at nine tomorrow morning, at the Cafe Rousse.