Pauline at the Beach (1983)

Amanda Langlet: Pauline

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• Marion : I want to make him really, really, really fall in love. If I suffer, he'll suffer, too.

  Pauline : Why make him suffer, if you love him?

  Marion : Because in love, everything must be shared. Pleasure as well as suffering.

• Marion : We're lucky there's no phone here. I feel I could spend hours and hours here without budging.

  Pauline : Don't you want to go to the beach?

  Marion : Yes, for a swim. But it's not such a great place to stay. For reading or working it's better here.

  Pauline : I like the beach better.

  Marion : You'll be disappointed.

  Pauline : No, I feel like going to the beach.

• Henri : Love is a dream.

  Pauline : Not entirely.

• Pauline : You used to say, "Love only exists when it's requited." You want it to be requited right away, at the very second you meet. I'm not interested in the superficial things in people. I only pay attention to deeper qualities.

  Marion : But you sense them beneath the surface. It's love when, beneath the surface you get the depth of that person from a single glance.

• Sylvain : Did you think I'd come?

  Pauline : What about you?

  Sylvain : I knew you came here.

  Pauline : You came because of me?

  Sylvain : I don't usually go six miles just to take a swim.

• Pauline : You could be coming for Marion.

  Sylvain : You're crazy.

  Pauline : I know you like her.

  Sylvain : Well, sort of, but she's not really my type. I really like - a more natural type.

• Pauline : She's married, but her husband's not around. She's getting divorced soon, so here's your chance.

  Sylvain : That chick isn't for me.

• Sylvain : You got a boyfriend?

  Pauline : Tons!

  Sylvain : Got room for maybe one more?

  Pauline : It certainly wouldn't be you.

  Sylvain : I didn't say I was applying.

  Pauline : Hands off. I don't like being touched.

  Sylvain : What about your boyfriends?

  Pauline : They wouldn't dare.

  Sylvain : So, then, they're *not* your boyfriends.

• Marion : I think you could have found someone better to become more experienced with. Know who I mean?

  Pauline : No.

  Marion : Pierre.

  Pauline : But he's old!

  Marion : He's young and good-looking.

  Pauline : I know there are girls my age who like adults, but I don't.

• Pauline : How can you decide who others will love or not love?

• Pierre : She can't love him! Or else she's insane.

  Pauline : Love is a type of insanity.

  Pierre : No, it isn't! You love what's good, what's good for you.

• Pierre : If she loved what suited her, what was good for her, I'd be the first to understand and accept it. But she's always looking for something so far away; whereas, I feel so close. When I saw her again, this feeling of familiarity shot out with such tremendous force. And I knew that she was mine, that she was a part of me.

  Pauline : That's just it, you're too close. She knows you like the back of her hand. There's no mystery there. You're so familiar.

  Pierre : I *want* to be familiar. I hate the unknown.

• Pauline : You missed your chance. You weren't aggressive enough.

  Pierre : I don't like to be aggressive.

• Pierre : I want to wait for her to come to me on her own.

  Pauline : Fine. Wait, then.

  Pierre : I will wait. As long as necessary. Until - until she loves me. If she takes too long, then I won't love her anymore. It's very likely I'll stop loving her eventually. Maybe she'll love me, but it'll be too late. That will be my revenge.

  Pauline : You don't really love her. You want her to love *you*. That's not the same thing.