Before Sunset

I need time to recover from this movie. WHY IS IT SO PERFECT??? Celine: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane. Jesse: I know. Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely. - Celine I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don't really have the ambition and ego to be a leader—they don't see any interest in the rewards, they don't care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment. That’s what I like about traveling—you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a good book, and that’s enough to qualify as a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you’re a bum. Memory is a wonderful thing if you don’t have to deal with the past. Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women. I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you. You know, maybe we're - we're only good at brief encounters, walking around in European cities in warm climate. Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything. *Jesse: In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I'm in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I'm staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you. Celine: I lived on 11th and Broadway. Jesse: You see?* People just have an affair, or even entire relationships... they break up and they forget! They move on like they would have changed brand of cereals! I feel I was never able to forget anyone I've been with. Because each person have... their own, specific qualities. You can never replace anyone. What is lost is lost. Each relationship, when it ends, really damages me. I never fully recover. That's why I'm very careful with getting involved, because... It hurts too much! I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. A waltz for a night