Capricious Summer (1968)
Rudolf Hrusínský: Antonín Dura
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Antonín Dura : The course of this summer seems somewhat unfortunate.
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Maj. Hugo : As far as I can tell, your satisfaction comes from having the last word.
Antonín Dura : Better to have the last word than the last blow.
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Priest : Hey, sir. Tame your stick! I can see it clearly between your thighs! Who taught you such manners?
Antonín Dura : Don't take me for someone with no manners. I took off my shorts for a good reason, as skin is meant to breathe and requires it. I was taught the principles of good hygiene. I've adopted them and I follow them with great benefit to my body.
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Antonín Dura : The nights are delightful and the days are worthless. Why is that so, Father?
Priest : I think it's because you are a great sinner, and this nasty, windy weather every day is the punishment of heaven.
Antonín Dura : The devil it is! There were times when we sinned all we wanted and the sun kept shining. It's something else, I believe.
Maj. Hugo : The attraction of the sexes is older than the rocks and the sea, yet that's no reason for a deluge the arrive.
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Antonín Dura : There are painfully few pretty girls, but they exist.
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Antonín Dura : Do you believe, Major, that everything arises out of playfulness and courage of those people who, not creating either books or consumer objects, have enough time to prattle on like gods and arrange things in a surprising order?
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Antonín Dura : Oh, you lewd poets! Oh, you wicked literature! When will we have fiction about brothels? When will it turn to civic virtues?
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Antonín Dura : I wish to say this: Distance is measured by yearning. Abundance is measured by hunger.
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[last lines]
Antonín Dura : The course of this summer seems unfortunate, indeed.
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Antonín Dura : Anna: showing the joint mechanics and muscle contractions, provides us with a joyful image of pure being and serious acts, which form the roots of theater and thus she praises God for his alleged creation of the human body in his image.
