Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tom Courtenay: Pasha

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Quotes 

• Pasha : I used to admire your poetry.

  Zhivago : Thank you.

  Pasha : I shouldn't admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don't you agree? Feelings, insights, affections... it's suddenly trivial now. You don't agree; you're wrong. The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it. I can see why you might hate me.

  Zhivago : I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

• Pasha : They rode them down, Lara. Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more 'peaceful' demonstrations.

• Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : [narrating; on World War I]  By the second winter, the boots had worn out... but the line still held. Even Comrade Lenin underestimated both the anguish of that 900-mile long front... as well our own cursed capacity for suffering. Half the men went into action without any arms... irregular rations... led by officers they didn't trust.

  Officer : [to soldiers]  Come on, you bastards!

  Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : And those they did trust...

  Pasha : [leaps out of the trench and begins leading his men in a charge]  Come on, Comrades! Forward, comrades! Earth-shakers!

  [an artillery shell explodes in front of him; he falls to the ground, and the soldiers retreat to their trench] 

  Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : Finally, when they could stand it no longer, they began doing what every army dreams of doing...

  [the soldiers begin to leave their trenches] 

  Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago : They began to go home. That was the beginning of the Revolution.

• Pasha : [to Yuri]  The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it.

• Pasha : The private life is dead - for a man with any manhood.

  Zhivago : I saw some of your 'manhood' on the way at a place called Minsk.

  Pasha : They were selling horses to the Whites.

  Zhivago : It seems you've burnt the wrong village.

  Pasha : They always say that, and what does it matter? A village betrays us, a village is burned. The point's made.

  Zhivago : Your point - their village.

• Komarovski : Pavel Pavlovich. My chief impression - and I mean no offence - is that you're very young.

  Pasha : Monsieur Komarovsky. I hope I don't offend you. Do people improve with age?

  Komarovski : They grow a little more tolerant.

  Pasha : Because they have more to tolerate in themselves. If people don't marry young, what do they bring to their marriage?

  Komarovski : A little experience.