Cloud Atlas

Javier: What are you reading? Luisa Rey: Old letters. Javier: Why do you keep reading them? Luisa Rey: I don't know. Just trying to understand something. Javier: What? Luisa Rey: Why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over. Javier: Maybe you should ask... Megan. Luisa Rey: What? Javier: Do you know a Megan?

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Vyvyan Ayrs: That's it! The music from my dream. Robert Frobisher: I call it the "Cloud Atlas Sextet".

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Archivist: And what if no one believes this truth? Sonmi~451: Someone already does.

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Haskell Moore: There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. This movement will never survive, if you join them you and your entire family will be shunned. At best you will exist at pariah to be spat at and beaten, at worse to be lynched or crucified. And for what, for what, no matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean. Adam Ewing: What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?

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Vyvyan Ayrs: You are naive, Robert. Robert Frobisher: I am anything but. Vyvyan Ayrs: There is a gulf between these chairs. Robert Frobisher: What you want is no different from what I want. The gulf is an illusion.

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Zachry: You think someone gonna hear your prayer, come down from the sky? Meronym: Perhaps. Perhaps one day. Zachry: One day ain't but a flea o' hope. Meronym: Yay, and fleas ain't so easy to rid.

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