The Alienist (TV Series)

Angel of Darkness: Gilded Cage (2020)

Daniel Brühl: Laszlo Kreizler

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• Laszlo Kreizler : [to guest at engagement ball]  It's more than somewhat depressing. Such wanton extravagance fills me with melancholia.

• Laszlo Kreizler : [to Osgood]  The three agencies of action within human nature are appetite, spirit, and reason. Before *me* I see appetite has vanquished both spirit, and reason.

• Laszlo Kreizler : I suspect your compassion stems from a bereavement, Mrs. Carlisle.

  Mrs. Carlisle : My William departed this earth when he was six months old. Nothing compares to losing an infant.

• Laszlo Kreizler : The events earlier this evening were simply a distraction. There's a phenomenon common in visual perception that when something is drawing the eye's attention, an object, a source of light, we become almost blind to surrounding objects.

  Marcus Isaacson : The human eye cannot help but fixate on certain stimuli.

  Lucius Isaacson : And in such cases the person isn't even aware that their perception is limited, so subtle is the effect.

  Laszlo Kreizler : The same can be true of the mind. And so it is with us we have gone off-course.