Antonia's Line (1995)
Willeke van Ammelrooy: Antonia
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Quotes
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Boer Bas : I wanted to have a word.
Antonia : What about?
Boer Bas : About you and me. About marriage. I was thinking, you're a widow and my wife is dead. You are a good-looking woman. My sons need a mother.
Antonia : But, I don't need your sons.
Boer Bas : No?
Antonia : No.
Boer Bas : Don't you need a husband?
Antonia : What for?
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Antonia : This is no time for Schopenhauer. This is important.
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Antonia : Yes. It's time to die.
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Antonia : She's got a point. Father was a dirty old man. Used to feel them up round the clock.
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Antonia : [walking to mass] That wall's the Saturday night urinal. The stench on Sunday morning could bend nails. Ah, the nuns! They haven't gone extinct, yet.
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Thérèse (6) : Isn't it terrible that nothing exists?
Antonia : That's why there's so much.
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Antonia : Nothing dies forever. Something always remains. A little something from which new things grow. So life begins, without knowing where it came from or why it exists.
Sarah : But why?
Antonia : Because life wants to live.
Sarah : Isn't there a heaven either?
Antonia : This is the only dance we dance.