The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Pier Angeli: Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium")
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Nina Burkhardt : You were going to tell me what you wanted.
Pierre Narval : Up to a few years ago I was an aerialist. You know, a trapeze artist. They said I was the best - better than the best. But I was unlucky. They said I took risks, but if you don't want to take risks, you can crawl along the ground, can't you, like a fly with its wings off? Up there on the bar you got to do something... something that nobody else can do, eh?
Nina Burkhardt : I suppose so.
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Pierre Narval : I want you to be my partner.
Nina Burkhardt : Me? But I've never... How do you know I could learn?
Pierre Narval : I don't know. I have a hunch. You jumped on skis, and you jumped into the Seine.
Nina Burkhardt : [She smiles] And you offer me a better way to die?
Pierre Narval : No, a better way to live.
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Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium") : Look, I'm not out to kill you; myself, either. You'll be all right because you don't care for life. People get killed when the cling to life. They cling to the bar a split second too long. That girl I spoke of, she did all right, until she got worried about life. She fell in love.
Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium") : With you? I shan't do that.
Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium") : There's no room for that sort of thing. You've got to be free. Nerves right; timing right. The bar comes up to meet you. The hands are there to catch you. Well?
Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium") : The hands that pulled me out of the Seine.
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Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium") : [Regarding her attempted suicide] Why did you do it?
Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium") : I was finished too. I still am, but I'm still alive.
Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium") : One can be that, I know. Are you going to try it again? Are you?
Nina Burkhardt (segment "Equilibrium") : I haven't the strength to try again. I wish the war was still on. I wish someone would...
Pierre Narval (segment "Equilibrium") : ...do it for you? Don't say that. That is something you must never say.