"My hands-on active days are over." "It's time now for thinking." "Geneva." "Pretty Lake Leman divides the town into two." "Secret agents from several nations met here, on neutral territory, and declared a deadly war." "$800." "I'm Bruno Forestier of the French Information Bureau." "I'm acting as a reporter here." "MORE TERRORIST ATTACKS" "They're at it again." "Shit!" "They're totally mad." "Geneva, 13th May '58." "Aragon once wrote " ""May saw no sorrow, June was stabbed. "" "LOVE ONE ANOTHER" "OK, Mary-Lou?" "There was a call for you." "You shouldn't have said I was hereI" "The sky reminded me of a KIee painting." ""Where are you from?" "Where are you?" "Where are you going?"" ""Da dove?" "Dove?" "Verso Dove?"" "What's going on, mate?" " What are you up to, Bruno?" " Nice paul klee." "Not as nice as the girl I'm seeing." "I said you take photos of her." " What if I don't want to see her?" " You do." "Come on!" " I'm going to the brazilian consulate." " Just go tomorrow." "There's always too much chit-chat with girls." "Is it the Danish girl who was with michel yesterday?" "He told me about her." "I bet you'II want to sleep with her." "Her mouth is like leslie Caron's." "No." "I only sleep with girls I'm in love with." " Bet you'II be in love in five minutes." " How much do you bet?" "$50?" "$50 says I won't fall for her." "The first time I saw her, it was as if she were straight out of a Giraudoux play." "Veronica!" "OK, you can kill a man by stabbing or shooting him, but not by blowing him up." "It is not honourable to kill a man from a distance." "You don't know what you're talking about." "What are you talking about?" " What are you talking about?" " LachenaI, the art teacher who was killed yesterday in a car-bomb attack." " It was the French." " What do you know about it?" "You're annoying me, you've no idea what you're talking about." "Students are all the same." "I know his daughter." "She's often at the ice rink." "You're right, it's awful." "Oh, shit!" " What's up?" " I have to go to the station." "They thought I meant "war station" It's all the same." "She stared at me again." "Bye, then." "See you tomorrow at 5.00 for the photos." " Where are you going?" " It's a mystery." " You're very mysterious." " I am a secret agent." "Veronica!" "Shake you hair, Iike that." "Here's your $50." "Where are you going?" "Stay!" "Is it important?" "You never know what might be important." "I was still very young and foolish." "would we have sun or rain?" "Who knows?" "I'M LISTENING TO THE UNIVERSE" "until now, my Iife had been simple." "I had no ideals." "But what about tomorrow?" "I asked him for a light." "I asked him again if he had a light." " Do you know the story of intelligence?" " The big guys and the little guys." "They've been playing football every Thursday for 1 5 years." "For 1 5 years, the little guys won and the big guys lost." "One day, the big guys' committee decides that this can't go on." "So, they send one of the team to talk to them." "He explains that he's from the big guys' committee." "He says: "In the 1 5 years we've been playing, you've always won." "What's your secret?"" "The lad replied: "We have intelligence."" ""What is intelligence?"" ""It's simple." "Bring me an anvil and a lump of metal." Here is the anvil." "The little guy said to the big guy:" ""Take the metal and hit it."" "He lifted his hand." "That is intelligence." "The big guy wanted to dash off in case he forgot." "They told him:" ""You're our guest, stay a while."" "Then the guy called on the committee." "He found a leader of the big guys and said: "They have intelligence!"" " "What's intelligence?" - "Bring me an anvil."" "He said to him:" ""We don't have an anvil."" ""What about a lump of metal?" So, they got some metal." ""Take the metal," he said to the leader, then: "Hit here!"" "And he lifted his hand." "The Acorn And The Pumpkin, a fable by Jean de Ia Fontaine." "The Acorn And The Pumpkin, a fable by Jean de Ia Fontaine." "The Acorn And The Pumpkin." "Sometimes, I felt like I was wasting my time." "And did Veronica have VeIázquez-grey eyes, or were they Renoir-grey?" "alfred Latouche or his brother usually met me." "But they got caught." "What about me?" " hello, Jacques." " hello, Bruno." "Hop in." "Our anti-terrorist group was firinanced by an ex-Poujadist, who had been a prominent figure in the days of the Vichy regime." "Do you know Jacques?" " I didn't know the other guy." " He's in the car behind us." " Who is he?" " If anyone asks, you don't know." "MiddIemen, bankers, salesmen, daddy's boys - the secret war mixed men and ideas at an increasingly deadly pace." " Are we early?" " We're OK, it's 4.50." "If his car is there, stop by the fountain, paul, where I showed you." "It's a '57 Nash convertible." "So, Bruno, what are you thinking?" " I don't know." " You must know." "What were you going to say?" "Go ahead, say it." "I've changed my mind." "What's that book?" " Thomas The Impostor" " By Jean Cocteau." "Listen to the ending, it's superb." ""william flew, Ieapt and ran like a hare." "Not having heard the gunshots, he stopped and turned, out of breath." "Then he felt a sharp jab in the chest." "He fell." "He'd become deaf and blind." "'A bullet,' he thought, 'I'm finished... ..unless I pretend to be dead.'" "For him, fact and fiction were one and the same." "william Thomas was dead."" "It's beautiful." "I'd Iike to die like that." "Don't worry, you may well do soon." "What's up with you?" "Why?" "Because you're a pain in the backside." "They've been after you since Saturday." "Why were you in Annecy?" "I hoped to take Veronica to brazil." "I'm opening an art gallery." "I went to buy three ModigIianis." "I won't ask you how you paid for them." " I'II pay you back." " We're here!" ""Oh, days of blossoming flowers... "" "Why was I obsessed by that poem?" "Turn the radio down a little." "Do you know who does this show?" "Arthur PaIivoda on Radio Geneva?" "There he is." "I soon realised that they thought I might be a double agent." "Come on, Iet's go." "This show's called "A neutral Person talks"." "That kills me." "Have you seen PaIivoda before?" "Before today?" "No." "Drive next to him, get a good look at him - you're going to kill him." " Why me again?" " The order came from Paris." "Jacques said it wouId be very easy." "Just drive along next to him, Iike paul is doing now... and fire... ..when you get in line with him." "Put your window up!" "In Paris, they're sure he works for the rebels?" " I'd be surprised - he's Swiss." " I'm not." "It's less dangerous... ..to talk on the radio than to fight." "The Swiss have never been very brave." "Look how they drive." "They indicate to overtake a cyclist." "That infuriates me." "shall I go to the hotel?" " Later." "Go to the office." " Is it true that Latouche is dead?" "They found him in his bathtub, tongue cut out and eyelids ripped off." "There was blood everywhere." "Are you frightened?" "I don't enjoy shooting people." "You can borrow the car." "It doesn't have Geneva plates, so you'II be harder to trace." " It's too dangerous." "Why me?" " Because you." " No, I don't want to kill PaIivoda." " What's wrong with you?" "A second ago, it was yes and now it's no." "I don't know why." "If I kill him, I'd feel defeated." "That doesn't matter." "A victory is indeed better than a defeat." "What makes the Spanish republicans' salute great is that it's not threatening, Iike this." "It's honourable." "Look, Benjamin Constant and Mme de StaêI lived there." "We chose you to kill PaIivoda to see if you were afraid." "Afraid?" "I'm not at all afraid." "I just don't want to and I won't do it." " We'II make you do it." " You can't make me do it." "You can't even force a soldier to kill someone." "Are you mad?" "It's easy." "The Swiss know you're a deserter." "One little slip and they'd send you back to France." "You'd be brought before a military tribunal." "unless you do it, it'II be your turn." "Ask Jacques." " So, kill me." " 26 is very young to die." "I would kill PaIivoda, but only if they force me to." " Goodbye." " So, can I count on you?" "No, because I'm a pain in the backside." "This isn't funny." "What shall we do?" "I thought the most important thing in life was not to be defeated." "I rang the brazilian consulate to ask how long a visa would take." "A Frenchman and a Russian woman." "They were shut." "I'd ring the next day." "I walked around town." "The starry skyline is moving, yet cold and mysterious in the image of man and what goes beyond." "She pretended not to see me." "I didn't stop, I was afraid." "Anyhow, I'd see her the next day." "Later, I noticed a car following me." "I had to go down a few back streets to shake it off." "Now, all is quiet." "The enemy is resting in the shadows." "Summer was approaching, but it felt like winter." "paul, what are you up to?" "Her place wasn't bad." " I've just moved in." " It's not bad." "I didn't see you yesterday, but I thought about you." "Now I'm with you, but I'm thinking about something else." "Is this all you've brought?" "I thought you'd need loads of things, lights..." "This is very fast film." "It's Agfa Record." "When you take a picture of a face... ..you take a picture of the soul behind it." "She had dark eyes." "They were VeIázquez-grey." " Where do you want me?" " Anywhere, it doesn't matter." "Do what you want and I'II take pictures." "It'II be easier if I ask the questions and you give the answers." " You seem afraid." "Why?" " Yes, I'm afraid." "You shouldn't be." "It's like being questioned by the police." "She was less beautiful than the day before." "Yes, it is a little." "Photography shows the truth." "Cinema shows the truth at a rate of 24 times a second." "Your name is Veronica what?" "She didn't reply straight away." " Veronica Dreyer." " Are you Finnish?" "Or Danish?" "No, I'm Russian." "But I was born in Copenhagen." " Are you in Geneva with your parents?" " No, I'm on my own." "A foreigner speaking French is very attractive." " Where are your parents?" " They were shot during the war." " Who shot them?" " It's none of your business." "By the Germans?" " By the Russians?" " It's none of your business!" " Why don't you tell me?" " I just don't want to." "Lift up your hair." "Veronica's charm was in herself." "The line of her shoulders, her anxious look, the mystery in her smile." "oddly enough, my father was shot too." "On Liberation Day." "By one of Drieu La rochelle's friends." "Move a little, don't stay still." " What do you want me to do?" " Anything." "Light a cigarette..." " Take a shower." " I don't want to." "She turned suddenly." "Don't you ever take showers?" "I said whatever came into my head." "I'd Iike to take pictures of you having a shower." "Don't you want me to?" " Why?" " Because it's stupid." "Don't you want me to see your body?" "What were you going to say?" "What are you thinking right now?" "Move a little." "Do you ever think about death?" "She looked distressed and suddenly, I felt as if I were taking pictures of death." "Then everything went back to normal." "Have you been on a Iot of dates since you came to Geneva?" " Yes." "Why?" " I just wondered." "I bet you've posed in a swimsuit before." "No, never." "What are you thinking about now?" " Are you thinking about me?" " Yes." "What do you think of me?" "Why won't you answer me?" "Are you afraid?" "pull your hair back." "hold that record sleeve over your face." "Do you believe in liberty?" "No." " would you be able to kill someone?" " You're a pain!" " Do you have brothers and sisters?" " One brother." "He's a student at the StanisIavsky Theatre in Moscow." "Russians are always studying." "Russians are always studying." "It's funny that you wanted to be an actress." "She lit a cigarette and asked why." " Why?" " Actors are stupid." "I don't like them." "You tell them to laugh, they laugh." "You tell them to cry, they cry." "You tell them to crawl and they do it." "I think it's weird." "I don't see why." "I don't know." "Such people are not free." "Look, an actor." "Yes, it's by klee." " Do you Iike paul klee?" " Yes." "It doesn't matter how other people see you." "What matters is how you see your face." " Did paul klee say that?" " No, I said it." " Have you got a record?" " What would you Iike?" "Bach?" "It's too late." "Bach is for 8.00 in the morning." "Brandenburg is superb at 8.00 in the morning." "Mozart?" "Beethoven?" "Too early." "Mozart is for 8.00 in the evening." "Beethoven's music is profound." "Beethoven is for midnight." "What we need is..." "Haydn." "Good old Joseph Haydn." "What are you thinking?" "Veronica!" "The same as you." "You know this is a test?" "It's a drawing to discover a person's character." "I often used this on women." "They love to be called little girls and to play like children." "Do whatever you Iike." "Just finish the drawing." " Did Hugh tell you about our bet?" " The $50 you gave him?" "No." "You don't know why I gave him $50?" "You do it too." "I'd Iike to know what you're thinking." "You'II see." "I Iove you." "Jacques and paul had parked outside the Century." "Veronica and I talked about art." "She's convinced Gaugin was better than Van Gogh, which obviously isn't true." " Here he is." "But who is the girl?" " A cover girl." " Are you going to stay with me?" " I don't know." "I don't know, Bruno." "When we left club 58... do you remember?" " You took my arm." " ShouIdn't I have?" "Why?" "Because it made me want to sleep with you." "Now, you're acting as if that couldn't possibly happen." "You shouldn't give your arm to men you're not interested in." " Go on, paul." " Do you think it will work?" "Yeah." "Bruno's a coward." "paul took my car." "He and Jacques carried out their threat and devised a way to put the Swiss police onto me." "Go on!" "Go on!" "My Pontiac!" "Bastard!" "Stop him!" "police!" "That's a German song." "Do you want me to translate it?" ""Oh, radiant dawn, radiant dawn" "You announce my death so soon?" "The trumpets will soon sound... ..and then..." ".. I shall have to leave this beautiful life."" "7 am." "A few snapshots taken from around the world pass by me like bad dreams." "Panama... ..Rome..." "alexandria... ..Budapest..." "Paris..." ""We went to war like children going to school. "" "That was the firirst line in Bernanos's book, humiliated children." "I lit a cigarette." "I feel like a little boy this morning." "Why?" "Asking questions may be more important than firinding answers." "Veronica." "Give me a drag." "I'm hungry." "I had a nightmare." "I dreamt that I went to the theatre and that I met the devil in the interval and he was very well dressed." "It really was the devil, he had hairy legs and horns." "His leg was injured, there was a big, red gash." "It was awful." " Who is it?" " Where are you going?" "God, she was beautiful." "I wondered if she was pretending to be asleep." "police." "Are you Bruno Forestier?" " Come with me." " I haven't done anything." " You know you're wanted in France." " Yes, I'm a deserter." " But my papers are in order." " Put a coat on." "We'II see about that." "Desertion is a serious crime." "I couId be exiled from Geneva and handed over to the French." "As I didn't yet know what it was all about, I denied everything." "There, you see?" "Sir...please." " You shouldn't have fled." " I wasn't there." " The French think they can do anything!" " Were you there, or not?" "Never, ever look down in front of the police." "I was such an idiotI" " The gentleman has witnesses." " They're in the car." "This was the crap I had to take for not killing PaIivoda." "So, back to station?" "I had lost my firirst real battle." "So, are you going to file charges?" "I was overcome by loneliness." "Maybe remorse begins with liberty." " Where did you go?" " To buy cigarettes." " Didn't you have a bath?" " No, I didn't feel like it." "A woman's shoulders are pretty and magnificent." " You're acting strangely this morning." " Yes, I'm becoming a coward." "I'm becoming a coward." "It's funny, when I Iook myself in the face... ..it doesn't look the same as the idea I have in my head." "What do you think is more important, the inside or the outside?" "It was beautiful thing." "black, mysterious and incorruptible." "My friend RaouI Coutard called it "the pain in the backside law';" "Every time I was ready to fire, something happened to stop me." "Every time the coast was clear, I hesitated." "And once again, it was too late." "It's hard to try to kill a man several times in a row." "It's like messing up a suicide attempt and having to try again." "After a while, I'd had enough." "It wasn't because I had to kill someone, I'd done it before." "ARAB COMMERCIAL BANK" "I'd always thought conscientious objectors were phoney." "So what was it?" "Everything in life has a right time and a wrong time." "paul is always bursting with energy." "He and Jacques are always full of ideas, Iike real secret agents." "They will stop at nothing." "They even made me kill PaIivoda in public." "Accused of being a traitor, my only way out was to hit on the enemy." "As I drew out my gun, I sensed paul aiming his at me." "Bruno, how's it going with your Danish girl?" "Shit, they're leaving." "You can't shoot him, so you do work for them." "What are you dreaming about?" "That's it, I've had enough." "With both the French and the Arabs after me, I really was stuffed." "No, I'm going to take a bath." "We could meet later, at club 58, if you Iike." " Why?" " I can't stay in Geneva." "I'm going to Zurich tomorrow." "I'm flying out to brazil." "Veronica..." " Why aren't you saying anything?" " I don't know what to say." "tell me lies." "Say you don't care that I'm leaving." "I don't care that you're leaving." "I'm not in love with you." "I won't go out to brazil to see you." "I won't kiss you tenderly." "I went straight to Zurich." "The lights of Rio were calling, not the lights of Geneva." "Did I feel happy because I was free, or free because I was happy?" " hello, Jacques?" " No, it's paul." "It's Bruno." "Take care, lad." "Today's tragedy is politics." "I didn't say that, napoleon said it." "Listen, Bruno..." "Let me speak!" "I'm calling to tell you your car is at the Century hotel." "I hit my head hard so on the ground that I lost consciousness." "I forgot to count the steps so that I'd know what floor we were on." "Mr PaIivoda rang." "He'II be at the airport at 1 0.00." "The United Arab States consulate rang." "Who did you ring in the garage?" " Are you going to torture me?" " Are you afraid?" " Of course I'm afraid." " Who issued this passport?" "The French consulate here?" "There's this Arab joke." "A guy picks up the phone and says: "AIIõ?"" "The other guy replies: "No, it's all."" " shall we undress him?" " Yes." "If I'd yelled, they'd have hit me again." "Better just to take it." " Who is he?" " I don't know." " And him?" " Never seen him." "Jacques-AuréIien Mercier." "Ex-voIunteer in Indochina." "He disappeared during a money-Iaundering trial." "He reappeared in '57 in Rotterdam when the freighter Aramis was blown up, in '59 in Frankfurt when Professor Dietrich was assassinated." "And now, he's in Geneva." "Was it him you rang?" "What number did you dial?" "What number?" "I couId tell them it made no odds, but I didn't want to." "I wouldn't." "That's what I said to them." "They asked me to work for them." "But they wouldn't give me an advance, so I told them to forget it." "alfred Latouche also refused to talk." "So did his brother Etienne." "Do you want the same treatment?" "Etienne lowered his head to avoid having his throat cut but the razor caught him straight on the chin instead." "I hope you're brave." "This is going to be tough." "I don't know if I'm brave, but I'II soon find out." "Take him to the bathroom." "Get up!" "You become detached from the world of the living." "You're soon forgotten." "That's the one privilege you share with the dead... ..you can no Ionger die." "Torture is monotonous and sad." "It's not easy to talk about." "What number did you dial?" "Are you afraid?" "Why are you doing that?" "At times, one has to carve one's path... ..with a dagger." "A TINY SPARK CAN SET FIRE TO A WHOLE FIELD" "In Budapest, I'd already witnessed torture." "I wasn't sure if I couId bear it." "My moment had come." "The taps." "I knew others had endured far worse." "But I'd never encountered martyrs or screams through corridors." "So, I can't comment on that." "I forced myself not to scream and I soon stopped struggling." "Think of something else to quell the pain - sun, sea, sand." "You think so fast, you can no Ionger think of anything." "Write to Veronica, quick, ignore the pain." "Quick, write a letter." "Faster still." "Beat the pain." "A letter more touching than the one Denos sent his wife." " What happened?" " You passed out." " Did I cry?" " Why do you ask?" " What's going on?" " He's asking if he cried." "I'm wondering why he's bothered." "Because it's important." "Between torture sessions, we discussed politics." "They said I had no ideals, so resisting was stupid." "Like any revolutionary organisation, they tried to convert me." "The French tortured people too." ""Prisoners were kept in the dark, or in prison, or by any attempt to escape, that is, they'd get a round of bullets in their back."" "DjamiIIa's fiancé died that way." "Strength is superior to intelligence." "You certainly have to be strong to withstand strength." "LENIN:" "HAIL TO ITALIAN, FRENCH AND GERMAN COMMUNISTS" "Time to think of something else again - holidays, Brittany..." "Why didn't I give them the phone number?" "I no Ionger knew." "Dignity?" "I no Ionger even know what that means." "The telephone number!" "I shouted for help." "But I was so weak, my voice would barely carry two metres." "I thought I was shouting, but I was whispering." "I wondered what the shirts on the wash basin were for." "hello?" "PaIivoda?" "It's..." "cavalier F4." "Once the material is soaked in water, it's impossible to breathe." ""The rise of a revolution is like a ship that you can see on the horizon." "It is like the sun's rays piercing through darkness." "It is like a child that is about to be born."" " Did he tell you the phone number?" " No, still nothing." "But we'II get something out of him with this." "We don't want to leave any marks." "Why did I want to kill myself?" "I should just give them the information." "That's how the French became so unpopular." "The rise of a revolution is like a ship..." "I took the blade between my teeth, as I couldn't grab it with my hands." "It is like a child about to be born." "For better or for worse, they came back before I'd managed it." "Then..." "Then came the electricity." "A guy I knew brought the materials." "It all came back to me." "He gave Veronica a toy dog the firirst time we met." "OK, it'II work this time." "electricity is very simple." "They attach electrodes to you and turn on the current." "It doesn't kill you, but it does maim you." "Remember, Lenin said, "In a revolution, there are no easy tasks, nor easy methods."" "This political thought should be remembered in all struggles." ""The revolution will be victorious."" "They asked me to get dressed." "I thought about jumping out of the window." "If we were on the firirst floor, I'd be OK." "If not..." "What are you thinking?" "I'm thinking about Pierre BrossoIette." "I heard about how he died." "He died in 1 943 at the Paris Gestapo headquarters." "He'd been tortured for two months." "His eyes had been put out." "One day, they took him to a room to interrogate him again." "BrossoIette had suffered so much, he thought he'd crack." "He sensed there was a window in the room." "whilst they questioned him, he moved towards it... ..little by little... ..feeling his way." "As soon as he touched the window pane..." "..he threw himself through it." "luckily, we were on the firirst floor." "I went to Veronica's." "She worked for the Arabs, but she said that she'd come to brazil with me." "Excuse me, have you seen our friend Forestier?" " No." " OK, thanks." " He's definitely there." " She'd have told us." "I don't trust her." "Why would you rather die than talk?" "They'd have killed me anyway." "I don't know really." "luckily, I was on the first floor." "You look better without make-up." "I watched her sit down." "I Iike the way she smokes her cigarettes." "That's not true." "Yes, it is." " Why is the place empty?" " Because I was moving out." "I was going to leave." "We couldn't look each other in the face." "There are no marks." "I've got a few burn marks here." "But they were very careful." "Since AIgeria is under the UN, the orders must've come from Cairo." "No-one came to ask you where I was?" "When I was coming back in, yes." "I saw your friends again." " Who?" " They came yesterday... ..on behalf of the French consulate." "The thin one looks like a elevator boy, the other looks like a gigolo." " Who are they?" " paul and Jacques." "Yes, that's them." "We're the ones who killed LachenaI." "Why did she turn away from me?" "No, that's ridiculous." "PaIivoda, yes, but not LachenaI - he hadn't done anything." "He simply thought the war with AIgeria was wrong." " Yes, I don't know." " You always say that." "Of course I'm listening." "Mohamed Messoussa, 1 6, Chemin ChapeIIit." "Where can I call you?" "OK, you call us." "In exchange for two passports, I gave him the Arabs'address." "tell the photographer to go and see paul." "In your records, do you have anything on a girl called..." "Veronica Dreyer." "..Veronica Dreyer?" "OK, call me back." "Veronica Dreyer." " What about me then?" " Why do you work for the FLN?" "It's hard to explain." "little by little..." "But I don't care." "I think that the French are wrong." "The opposition have ideals." "The French don't." "It's important to have ideals." "The French had ideals against the Germans." "But they don't against the AIgerians." " They'II lose the war." " You think so?" "I don't." "They will!" "It's funny, everyone hates the French these days." "But I'm proud to be French." "But I don't agree with nationalism." "We should defend ideas, not borders." "I Iike France because I Iike Joachim du bellay and Louis Aragon." "I Iike Germany because I Iike Beethoven." "I Iike Spain because that's where barcelona can exist and America because I Iike American cars." "I don't like Arabs because I don't like the desert, or colonel Lawrence, or the Mediterranean, or albert Camus." "I Iove Brittany, but I hate the South." "The light in Brittany is always soft, unlike in the South." "And Arabs are lazy." "But I've nothing against them." "Or against the Chinese." "No, I'd Iike to ignore them." "It's dreadful these days." "If you remain calm and do nothing, you get into trouble for doing nothing," "So, you end up doing things you don't believe in." "And it's a shame to wage war if you don't believe in it." "The Vatican is anti-communist." "Yet they have the same ideas." ""AII men are brothers."" "I'm no brother of the tram conductor in, say, Peking or San Francisco." "I couldn't give a damn about that person." "Maybe one day... .. I'II wonder what became of him." "But he is not automatically my brother and friend because he has eyes and ears like me." "Objects, for instance, some we like, some we don't like." "Or colours." "For exampIe, I don't like dark red." "The same goes for people." "We can't be forced to love everyone." "As Guitry said: "We no Ionger know what to do with our love."" "She looked at me." "Women should never get older than 25." "Men become more handsome as they grow older, but women don't age well." "I think it's very unfair that women should age." "And I've noticed something strange." "When women kill themselves, they always jump... ..under a train or out of a window." "They're so worried they'II mess up, they fling themselves forward." "That way, there's no going back." "Men never do that." "Men rarely throw themselves under a train." "Women rarely sIit their wrists." "I think that they're brave, but at the same time cowardly." "I don't know." "Life gives women meaning." "But it gives men death." "Death is what is important." "Van Gogh once said that death would take us to another star." "There is something more important than our ideals." "But what?" "Something more important than not being defeated." "I wish I knew exactly what." ""Pathetic." I liked that word when I was at school." "Now, I hate it." ""Taciturn." Now there's a good word, Iike william." "I'm lost if I don't pretend to be lost." "I think everyone has ideals." "But everyone is missing something more important." "I'm sure God has no ideals." "There's this beautiful quote..." "Who said it?" "Lenin, I think." ""Ethics are the aesthetics of the future."" "Those are very beautiful and very moving words." "They bring the Left and the Right together." "What do Left- and Right-wingers think?" "What does the revolution mean today?" "Once the Right gets into power, they apply Ieftist policies." "And vice versa." "Whether I win or lose, I fight alone." "In the '30s, young people had a revolution." "MaIraux, Drieu Ia RocheIIe, Aragon." "We have nothing." "They had the Spanish civil War." "We don't even have our own war." "Aside from ourselves, our faces and voices, we have nothing." "But maybe it's important to recognise the sound of your own voice, and the shape of your face." "On the inside, it's like this... ..but when I Iook at it, it's like that." "people look at me, but they don't know what I'm thinking." "They'II never know!" "Right now - a German forest, a bike ride..." "It's gone." "Now, a street cafe in barcelona." "Now, that's gone too." "I'm trying to hold onto my own thoughts." "What about words?" "Where do our words come from?" "Maybe men talk incessantly, as if searching for gold... ..in their quest for the truth." "But instead of digging in riverbeds, they dig deep in their thoughts." "They cast aside all the worthless words." "And they end up with just one." "One single golden word is silence." "Why do you love me?" "I don't know." "Because I'm mad." "Who are you ringing?" "French Information Bureau." "hold the line." " Bruno Forestier on Iine one." " OK, put him through." "hello, who's there?" " Who is this?" " It's Bruno." " Who is this?" " Bruno!" " What's wrong?" " I don't know." "Bruno Forestier!" "What do you mean, wrong?" "Maybe they've moved." "We've just been there with paul." "There's no Mohamed Messoussa at that address." "That meant Veronica and I got no passports unless I agree to kill Arthur PaIivoda." "OK, come over here." "It's Bruno." "BrunoI Bruno ForestierI" "excellent." "Thanks, that's great." "OK, see you next week." "You were right, paul." "A girl who lives alone is either a prostitute or an informer." "The FLN must have another address." "And she knows it." "Here." "Lock yourself in, you never know with them." " Do they know you were tortured?" " Yes." "I'm glad." "The police found my chevrolet on a Swiss road." " When will you be back?" " I've got to find PaIivoda." "Maybe tonight, or tomorrow." " That's a nice dress." " It was a present." "Is it from the guy that gave you the puppy when we first met?" " Have you slept with him?" " We dated for quite a while." "There was nothing in it." "Yes, but even so." " Hasta IuegoI" " See you soon." " Who is it?" " Bruno." " Who's there?" " BrunoI" " Is that you, Bruno?" " BrunoI Bruno ForestierI" "The rest happened fast and a complex situation soon became very simple." "while I went to meet him, the French took Veronica away." "They tortured her horribly to make her give them the new FLN address." "But Jacques said he'd hold Veronica prisoner." "I'd get Veronica back, along with the passports, once I'd killed PaIivoda." "At times, one has to carve one's path with a dagger." "After I'd killed PaIivoda, I heard that Veronica was dead." "One thing I learnt is not to be bitter." "I was just glad I still had so much time ahead of me."