Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

Jeremy Irons: Raimund Gregorius

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• Raimund Gregorius : We threw a party for our colleagues... our friends. And she found this quote, from Pessoa: "The fields are greener in their description, than in their actual greenness." And somebody said: "Oh, that'a beautiful sentence" and I said: "Yes, but only a few people will ever understand it". And there was this terrible silence. And then she said, my wife: "And I suppose you are one of the chosen few?".

• Raimund Gregorius : Look at these eyes. Tell me what they reveal.

  Mariana : They melancholic, but hopeful; tired, but persistent... contradictory.

• Raimund Gregorius : [to his opponent, after making a move in a chess game he is playing against himself]  That'll get you thinking...

• Adriana de Prado : I believe you are looking for my brother.

  Raimund Gregorius : Yes. Is the doctor in?

  Adriana de Prado : Are you ill?

  Raimund Gregorius : No. I'm... I'm reading this book. I'd very much like to meet him. What he writes touches me very deeply.

• Raimund Gregorius : [narrating]  Is it ultimately a question of self-image, the determining idea one has made for oneself of what one has to have accomplished and experienced, so that one can approve of the life one has lived?

  Raimund Gregorius : If this is the case, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one planned to be.

  Raimund Gregorius : If the certainty befalls us that it will never be achieved, this wholeness.. we suddenly don't know how to live the time that can no longer be part of a whole life.

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  Raimund Gregorius : [playing chess against himself]  That will make you think...