Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948 film) Quotes
1948 films, 1940s American films, Drama films, Films based on short fiction, United States National Film Registry films
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“Carol Yorke - Marie”
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“[voiceover] I'd come to tell you about us, to offer you my whole life, but you didn't even remember me.”
“[voiceover] Oh, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost.”
“[about the duel] This is one engagement I have no intention of keeping. Honor is a luxury only gentlemen can afford.”
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“[voiceover] Well...I...I only told him the truth...I told him I wasn't free. My poor parents, for them this was the end. For me, it was a new beginning.”
“[to Lisa] You are a sorceress. Now, I'm sure. How else could we dance this way unless we've danced together before? And yet if we had, I should have remembered.”
“[voiceover] You who have always lived so freely, have you any idea what life is like in a little garrison town? I was eighteen now and was expected to take my place in society.”
“[voiceover] The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted.”
“[voiceover] I think everyone has two birthdays, the day of his physical birth and the beginning of his conscious life. Nothing is vivid or real in my memory before that day in Spring when I came home from school and found a moving van in front of our building. I wondered about our new neighbor who owned such beautiful things.”