Quotes

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Partridge: You always knew. … "But I being poor have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams." I assume you dream, Preston. Preston: I'll do what I can to see they go easy on you. Partridge: We both know they never go easy. Preston: Then I'm sorry. Partridge: No, you're not. You don't even know the meaning. It's just a vestigial word for a feeling you've never felt. Don't you see, Preston, it's gone, everything that makes us what we are, traded away. Preston: There's no war. No murder. Partridge: What is it you think we do? Preston: No. You've been with me, you've seen how it can be, the jealously, the rage. Partridge: A heavy cost. I pay it gladly.

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Preston: Every time we come from the Nethers to the city it reminds me of why we do what we do. Partridge: It does? Preston: I beg your pardon? Partridge: It does.

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Robbie Preston: John? John Preston: Yes? Robbie Preston: I saw Bobbie Taylor crying today. He didn't know, but I saw. Do you think I should report him? John Preston: (Pauses) Unquestionably.

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Mary: You can't do this. You cannot do this! Preston: Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do.

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Mary: Let me ask you something. Why are you alive? John Preston: I'm alive... I live... to safeguard the continuity of this great society. To serve Libria. Mary: It's circular. You exist to continue your existence. What's the point? John Preston: What's the point of your existence? Mary: To feel. 'Cause you've never done it, you can never know it. But it's as vital as breath. And without it, without love, without anger, without sorrow, breath is just a clock... ticking.

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Brandt: What are you doing? Preston: I'm rearranging my desk. Brandt: You didn't like the way it was before? Preston: I had no feelings about it. I'm merely attempting to optimize. Rebel: Don't do it. He'll shoot us in the back. Preston: If I was going to shoot you I'd shoot you in the face.

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Jurgen: We've been watching you, Preston. Preston: You're Jurgen. Jurgen: You're feeling. [pauses] Do you know why you came?

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Jurgen: But the first thing you learn about emotion is that it has its price. A complete paradox. But without restraint, without control, emotion is chaos. Preston: But how is that different- Jurgen: The difference being is that when we want to feel, we can.

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DuPont: Wait, Wait, look at me, look at me, I'm life, I live, I-I breathe, I feel. Now that you know it, can you really take it? Is it really worth the price? Preston: I pay it gladly. [shoots DuPont, killing him]