Quotes

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Sonja: I do believe that this is truly the best of all possible worlds. Boris Grushenko: Well, it's certainly the most expensive.

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Sonya: But, if there is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide? Boris Gruschenko: Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I'd hate to blow my brains out and then read in the paper that they found something. Sonja: Boris, Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody? Boris Grushenko: Murder's immoral. Sonja: Immorality is subjective. Boris Grushenko: Yes, but subjectivity is objective. Sonja: Not in a rational scheme of perception. Boris Grushenko: Perception is irrational. It implies immanence. Sonja: But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself. Boris Grushenko: Yeah, I've said that many times.

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Sonja: Boris, you can't be serious, you're talking about Mother Russia. Boris: She's not my mother. My mother's standing right here, and she's not gonna let her youngest baby get shrapnel in his gums. Mother: He'll go and he'll fight, and I hope they will put him in the front lines. Boris: Thanks a lot, Mom. My mother, folks.

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Him: Come to my quarters tomorrow at three. Sonja: I can't. Him: Please. Sonja: It is immoral. What time? Him: Who is to say what is moral? Sonja: Morality is subjective. Him: Subjectivity is objective. Sonja: Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality. Him: Not as an essential extension of ontological existence. Sonja: Could we not talk about sex so much?

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Countess Alexandrovna: You're the greatest lover I've ever had. Boris Grushenko: Well, I practice a lot when I'm alone.

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Boris Grushenko: [sighs] You think I was made in God's image? Take a look at me. You think he wears glasses? Sonja: Not with those frames.

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Boris Grushenko: Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness. Sonja: What did you say? Boris Grushenko: Oh [sighs], I was just planning my future.

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Sonja: "Violence is justified in the service of mankind!" Boris Grushenko: Who said that? Sonja: Attila the Hun. Boris Grushenko: You're quoting a Hun to me?

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Anton lvanovich Lebedokov: If you so much as come near the Countess, I'll see that you never see the light of day again. Boris Grushenko: If a man said that to me, I'd break his neck! Anton lvanovich Lebedokov: I am a man! Boris Grushenko: Well, I mean a much shorter man!

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Sonja: Oh, Boris, I'm so unhappy. Boris Grushenko: Ohh, I wish you weren't. Sonja: Voskovec and I quarrel frequently. I've become a scandal. Boris Grushenko: Poor Sonja. Sonja: For the past weeks, I've visited Seretski in his room. Boris Grushenko: Why? What's in his room? Oh... Sonja: And before Seretski, Aleksei, and before Aleksei, Alegorian, and before Alegorian, Asimov, and... Boris Grushenko: Okay! Sonja: Wait, I'm still on the A's. Boris Grushenko: How many lovers do you have? Sonja: In the mid-town area?

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Sonja: Sex without love is an empty experience. Boris Grushenko: Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

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Sonja: That is so jejune! Boris Gruschenko: Jejune? You have the temerity to accuse me of quoting to you out of jejunosity? I'm the most june person there is!

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Boris Gruschenko: I have no fear of the gallows. Priest: No? Boris Gruschenko: No. Why should I? They're going to shoot me.

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Father: Remember that nice boy next door, Raskolnikov? Boris: Yeah. Father: He killed two ladies. Boris: What a nasty story. Father: Bobak told it to me. He heard it from one of the Karamazov brothers. Boris: He must have been possessed. Father: Well, he was a raw youth. Boris: Raw youth, he was an idiot! Father: He acted assaulted and injured. Boris: I heard he was a gambler. Father: You know, he could be your double! Boris: Really, how novel.

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Sonja: Boris! What happened? Boris Grushenko: I got screwed. Sonja: How? Boris Grushenko: I don't know. This vision came and said I was going to get pardoned, and then they shot me. Sonja: You were my one great love! Boris Grushenko: Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm dead. Sonja: What's it like? Boris Grushenko: What's it like? You know the chicken at Tresky's Restaurant? Sonja: Yeah. Boris Grushenko: It's worse.