Wings of Desire Quotes

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Damiel: When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and ...

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[first lines] [in German, using English subtitles] Damiel: [voiceover] When the child was a child, it walked with its arms swinging. It wanted the stream to be a river, the river a torrent, and this puddle to be the sea. When the child was a child, i...

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Homer, the aged poet: Must I give up now? If I do give up, then mankind will lose its storyteller. And if mankind once loses its storyteller, then it will lose its childhood.

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Peter Falk: To smoke, and have coffee - and if you do it together, it's fantastic.

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Homer, the aged poet: What is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn't endure?

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Peter Falk: I'm a friend. Compañero.

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Damiel: [as Falk is led away] Wait! I want to know everything. Peter Falk: You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.

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Homer, the aged poet: Tell me, muse, of the storyteller who has been thrust to the edge of the world, both an infant and an ancient, and through him reveal everyman. With time, those who listened to me became my readers. They no longer sit in a circl...

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Peter Falk: [sketching an female extra, who is waiting on the set] What a dear face! Interesting. What a nostril. A dramatic nostril. These people are extras. Extra people. Extras are so patient. They just sit. Extras. These humans are extras. Extra ...

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Marion: Longing. Longing for a wave of love that would stir in me. That's what makes me clumsy. The absence of pleasure. Desire for love. Desire to love.

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Peter Falk: Yellow star means death. Why did they pick yellow...? Sunflowers. Van Gogh killed himself...

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Homer, the aged poet: Where are my heroes? Where are you, my children? Where are my own, the curious ones, the first, the original ones? Name me, muse, the immortal singer who, abandoned by those who listened to him, lost his voice. He who, from the ...

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Peter Falk: I can't see ya, but I know you're here. I can feel it.

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Peter Falk: There's so many good things.

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Damiel: First, I'll have a bath. Then I'll be shaved by a Turkish barber who will massage me down to the fingertips. Then I'll buy a newspaper and read it from headlines to horoscope. On the first day, I'll be waited upon... For requests, ask the nei...

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Nick Cave: [singing] From her to eternity.

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Damiel: It happened once... It happened once, and so it will be forever.

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[last lines] [using English subtitles] Homer, the aged poet: [in German] Tell me of the men, women, and children who will look for me - me, their storyteller, their bard, their choirmaster - because they need me more than anything in the world. Homer...

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