Queen Christina (1933)
John Gilbert: Antonio
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Quotes
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Christina : Great love...
Antonio : Don't you believe in it's possibility?
Christina : In it's possibility - yes. But not in its existence. A great love, perfect love, is an illusion. It is the golden fable of which we all dream. But in ordinary life it doesn't happen. In ordinary life one must be content with less.
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Antonio : It's all a question of climate. You can't serenade a woman in a snowstorm. All the graces in the arts of love - the elaborate approches that will make the game of love amusing - can only be practiced in those countries that quiver in the heat in the sun.
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Antonio : Of course. It has to be. I felt it. I felt it! The presence. Oh, life is so gloriously improbable.
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Antonio's Companion in Coach : It is still snowing my lord.
Antonio : Good!
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Antonio : [lying on her back at Antonio's feet, by the fireplace, Christina holds a bunch of grapes above her head and slowly lowers them down and takes a bite] They warmed and ripened in the Spanish sun. My haciendas overrun with them. In the season of the grape harvest, the air - smells purple. Purple grapes.
[Christina kisses the bunch of grapes]
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Antonio : Why did you go out of your way to make me look ridiculous? All that idiotic talk of love and beauty. You made my heart beat. You made me dream like a fool and talk like one.
Christina : I thought you'd understand, when you saw me again, what had happened. That it had been so enchanting to be a woman - not a Queen. Just a woman in a man's arms!