Saturday, January 12, 2013

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY — JANUARY 12


THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986)


VOICE OF ADSO AS AN OLD MAN: I have never regretted my decision, for I learned from my master much that was wise and good and true. When at last we parted company, he presented me with his eyeglasses. I was still young - he said - but someday they would serve me well. And in fact, I'm wearing them now on my nose as I write these lines. Then he embraced me fondly - like a father - and sent me on my way. I never saw him again, and know not what became of him, but I pray always that God received his soul, and forgave the many little vanities to which he was driven by his intellectual pride. And yet, now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet
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VOICE OF ADSO AS AN OLD MAN: I never knew, nor ever learned, her name.


Christian Slater as "Adso of Melk"


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