Lilith (1964)

Jean Seberg: Lilith Arthur

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• Lilith Arthur : If you should discover that your god loved others as much as he loved you, would you hate him for it?

• Lilith Arthur : You've killed with these hands. Why?

  Vincent Bruce : That's the business of a soldier.

  Lilith Arthur : You must love your God a lot to kill for him and still go on loving him. I'd never ask that of a lover. I'd only ask his joy.

• Stephen Evshevsky : You hurt my hand!

  Lilith Arthur : Let me see...

  Lilith Arthur : [she closely examines his hand]  You really have exquisite hands.

  Stephen Evshevsky : I bite my nails.

  Stephen Evshevsky : [continues]  If I learn to trust my hands... would they really lead me to things I love?

• Lilith Arthur : You know what she wants? You think they can cure this fire? You know what they have to cure? She wants to leave the mark of her desire on every living creature in the world. If she were Caesar, she'd do it with a sword. If she were a poet, she'd do it with words. But she's Lilith; she has to do it with her body.

• Lilith Arthur : [Vincent is in Lilith's room at the asylum]  Why did you come here?

  Vincent Bruce : I needed a job.

  Lilith Arthur : [Looking at him rather skeptically]  You could get a job in a butcher shop... Grocery store, gas station.

  Vincent Bruce : [Vincent nods in agreement, but remains silent] 

  Lilith Arthur : You were in the army... were you a hero?

  Vincent Bruce : [Vincent says nothing, just nods his head, yes, then shakes his head, no] 

  Lilith Arthur : I didn't think so.

  Lilith Arthur : [pauses, gives him a long, piercing look]  Did you come here for excitement?

  Vincent Bruce : Excitement?

  Lilith Arthur : Adventure?

  Vincent Bruce : I'm not an adventurer.

  Lilith Arthur : I think you are.

  Vincent Bruce : Why?

  Lilith Arthur : You're ill at ease. Adventurous people are always a little ill at ease. They're shy. They're not bold the way people think they are. They go stumbling around, breaking things, being scolded. Always looking for a place where they'll feel they belong. They have that crooked look.

  Vincent Bruce : [a bit puzzled]  "Crooked look"?

  Lilith Arthur : Of not really matching anything... I'd like to go for a walk now.