War and Peace (1965) Poster

(1965)

Sergey Bondarchuk: Pierre Bezukhov

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  • Platon Karataev : Well, though it's the worm that gnaws the cabbage, it's first to die.

    Pierre Bezukhov : What was that you said?

    Platon Karataev : I say it's not by our wit, but as God thinks fit.

  • Hélène Bezukhova : Why did you believe that he was my lover? Because I enjoy being with him? If you were nicer and more clever, I might enjoy being with you.

    Pierre Bezukhov : Don't speak to me. I beg you.

    Hélène Bezukhova : Why shouldn't I speak? It's a rare woman that wouldn't have taken a lover, with a husband like you.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : It is wrong to do evil to another human being.

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : How do you know what will do harm to another man? I know only two evils in life: a bad conscience and a sick body. Happiness consists in their absence. One must live for oneself, avoiding these two evils. That is my philosophy now.

    Pierre Bezukhov : How is it possible to live only for oneself? No! A thousand times no! I feel, deep within my soul, I am an integral part of a vast whole. I feel I cannot vanish without a trace. Nothing vanishes! I always have existed and always will.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Amuse yourself with women like my wife. There, you're within your rights. They know what you want of them. They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery. But to promise an innocent girl to marry her - to deceive, to abduct her. Don't you understand that's as despicable as beating an old woman or a child?

    Anatol Kuragin : I don't know about that.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Paris is the capital of the world.

    Rambal : A man who doesn't know Paris is simply a barbarian.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Who is it that is punishing me, killing me, taking my life with all my memories, my strivings, my thoughts? Who is doing it? Who then is doing this? They all suffer as I do. Who then? Who then is doing it? No one. It is the course of things, the way things work out.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : The soldier wouldn't let me pass. They have caught me, shut me up. They keep me prisoner. Who, me? Me? Me! My immortal soul! All that there is is mine! And all that is in me. And all that is me!

  • Pierre Bezukhov : That is life. That is Karatayev. He is absorbed and extinguished. It's all so simple and clear. How was it I did not know that before? Life is everything.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Stop it. You have your whole life ahead of you.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : You are a scoundrel and a blackguard! I don't know what stops me from smashing your skull.

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

    Natasha Rostova : Don't call him vile!

  • Hélène Bezukhova : It's a rare woman that wouldn't have taken a lover, with a husband like you. But I never did.

    Pierre Bezukhov : We had better part.

    Hélène Bezukhova : Part? With pleasure. If you provide me with a fortune. Part! Don't think you can frighten me!

    Pierre Bezukhov : I'll kill you! Get out!

  • Pierre Bezukhov : I must try to understand her, make up my mind as to what she is really like. Was I mistaken before or am I mistaken now? No, she isn't stupid. And she is beautiful.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Here we have this war with Napoleon. If it were a war for freedom, I would understand it and I would be the first to join the army. But I am against helping England and Austriato fight the world's greatest man. That's not right.

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : If we only fought for our convictions, there'd be no war.

    Pierre Bezukhov : Ah, that would be perfect!

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Perhaps perfect, but hardly possible.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : What are you going to war for?

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : What for? I don't know. It's necessary.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Death. Death and lies. Stupid. Stupid! Death and lies. Lies.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : [repeated line - to self]  You see nothing thorough those glasses of yours.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : We must live. We must love. We must believe that we are living not just on this patch of earth, but we have lived and will go on living forever.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Thank God I did not kill the man.

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Why? Killing a vicious dog is a good deed.

    Pierre Bezukhov : It's evil to kill a human being. It's wrong. It's not fair.

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Why is it unfair? We cannot judge what is fair and what is not. Men have always erred in their judgment. They always will.

  • Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : The only thing that convinces me is life and death. That's what convinces me. What is convincing is seeing someone dear to you, someone dependent upon you - who you have injured and with whom you had hoped to make it right - and then that someone is seized with pain and agony and ceases to be. Why? There must be an answer.

    Pierre Bezukhov : Yes, of course.

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : I am only saying it is not logic that convinces. What convinces is seeing someone close to you disappear - there - into nowhere, leaving you staring down into the abyss. And I starred into it.

  • Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Success does not depend on positions or weapons nor even the number of men.

    Pierre Bezukhov : Then on what?

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : It depends on the feeling within me, within him, within every soldier.

  • Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : They surrendered all of Europe to Napoleon and now come here to teach us. Fine teachers.

    Pierre Bezukhov : So you think we will win tomorrow's battle?

    Prince Andrei Bolkonsky : Yes, but if I had it in my power, I would do one thing. I would take no prisoners. The French destroyed my home and mean to destroy Moscow. They have insulted me and continue to insult me every second. They are my enemies. They are criminals. Timokhin thinks as I do. The whole army too. We must punish them. They plunder and kill our children. How can we talk about rules of war and mercy? We must take no prisoners, but kill and be prepared to die.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : If I were not - what I am, but the handsomest, most clever and best man in the world - and if I were free - at this moment I would be on my knees to beg for your hand - and your love.

  • Pierre Bezukhov : Napoleon is a great man, and the revolution was a great act.

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