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Arthur: God uses people like you, Lancelot. Because your heart is open. You hold nothing back. You give all of yourself.
Lancelot: If you knew me better, you would not say such things.
Arthur: Oh, hey, I take the good with the bad, together. I can't love people in slices.
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King Arthur: For the first in my life, I wanted what all wise man say can't last; what can't be promised or made to linger any more than sunlight. I don't want to die without having felt its warmth on my face.
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Lancelot: You have to sudy your opponent: how he moves, so you know what he's gonna do before he does it.
Mark: I can do that.
Lancelot: You have to know that one moment in every fight when you win or lose and you have to know how to wait for it.
Mark: I can do that.
Lancelot: And you have to not care whether you live or die.
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Lancelot: Do you know how to win a sword fight?
John: How?
Lancelot: Be the only one with a sword!
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Arthur: Lancelot, just a thought. A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life? I may be wrong.
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Lancelot: I dare not kiss so lovely a lady. I have but one heart to lose.
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Malagant: What I offer you is freedom; freedom from Arthur's tyrannical dream; fredom from Arthur's tyrannical law; freedom from Arthur's tyrannical God.
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Guinevere: If there is any honor in you, promise me never to do that again.
Lancelot: I don't know about honor. But I promise you, I won't kiss you again till you ask me to.
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Arthur: You risked your life for another. There is no greater love.
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Malagant: Self-sacrifice is very easy. It's having to sacrifice someone you love that puts your convictions to the test.
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King Arthur: Only a fool wants what he can not have.
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King Arthur: There are laws that enslave men, and laws that set them free.
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King Arthur: May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
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King Arthur: This is the heart of Camelot, not these stones, not these timbers, these palaces and towers. Burn them all and Camelot lives on, because it lives in us. Camelot is a belief that we hold in our hearts.
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King Arthur: Either what we hold to be right, and good, and true IS right and good and true for all mankind under God, or we're just another robber tribe.
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King Arthur: There's a peace only to be found on the other side of war. If that war should come I will fight it!
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Lancelot: I've never believed in anything before. But I do believe in Camelot, and I would serve it best by leaving.
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King Arthur: I trusted you, loved you, and you betrayed me!
Lancelot: I never meant to hurt you, my lord.
King Arthur: You leave me nothing! Nothing!
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King Arthur: I have no pride left in me. What I do, now I do for my people and for Camelot. And may they forgive me. This is my last act as your king. Do not be afraid. All things change. I am Arthur of Camelot, and I command you now... all... To fight! Fight like you've never fought before! Never surrender! Never Surrender! Fight as you never...
[Arthur is shot by several crossbow bolts]
King Arthur: Camelot lives!
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Arthur: [to Lancelot after being betrayed] The law will judge you!
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Guinevere: I only know one way to love my lord, and that is body and mind and soul.
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Malagant: The great Arthur and his great dream. No dream lasts forever.
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Arthur: John will send any message you want.
Guinevere: My Lord grants my wishes before I speak them.
Guinevere: [Addressing the messenger] Tell my people I'm come safe into my new country. Tell them you saw my eyes filled with tears of joy.
Arthur: Already a queen.
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Peter, King's Stableman: [Refers to Guinevere riding] She's a rare beauty, sire.
Arthur: Yes, she is.
Peter, King's Stableman: So is the mare.
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Arthur, Lancelot: Brother to brother, yours in life and death.
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[last lines]
Arthur: I feel it now, my love. The sunlight. It's in your eyes.
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Arthur: My truest... my First Knight. Camelot is your home now. You are the future... The future of Camelot. You take care of her for me. Take care of her.
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Arthur: [Reading Malagant's peace treaty] "Armed forces to be given access to all Leonesse."
[Malagant looks smuggly at him and Guinevere]
Arthur: "Troops to assist in the enforcement of law... in all Leonesse."
Arthur: Do you want to sign this?
Guinevere: I'll never sign it.
Arthur: There's your answer she says no.
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Malagant: Men don't want brotherhood, they want leadership. HO!
[Claps his hands and all his men stand at attention at once]
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Malagant: My god makes me strong so that I can live my life!
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Arthur: I ask you not to lie to me, even if you think you'll hurt me. Have you given yourself to him?
Guinevere: No, my lord.
Arthur: Do you love him?
Guinevere: Yes.
Arthur: How did I fail you?
Guinevere: You've never failed me, my lord.
Arthur: I saw your face as you kissed him.
Guinevere: Love has many faces. I look on you differently, but not with less love.
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Arthur: When a woman loves two men, she must choose between them.
Guinevere: I choose you.
Arthur: Your will chooses me. Your heart chooses him.
Guinevere: My will is stronger than my heart. Do you think I put so high a price on my feelings? They'll pass. My will holds me to my course through life.
Arthur: As mine does me. And yet, all I have to do is look at you and everything I ever believed in fades to nothing. All I want is your love.
Guinevere: You have it.
Arthur: Do I? Then look on me as you looked on him.
Guinevere: I gave one moment to Lancelot.
Arthur: Yes. You're innocent. BUT YOU LOVE HIM!
[walks off]
Arthur: Any more of this innocence and I'll go mad!
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Guinevere: Forgive me!
Arthur: What's to forgive? I dreamed the dream of you. It was a sweet dream, while it lasted.
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Guinevere: Do you have secrets to tell me?
Arthur: No. No secrets. Just a question. Do you want to marry me? You don't have to marry me because your father wanted it. Camelot will protect Lyonesse, whether you marry me or not.
Guinevere: Thank you. You don't know what it means to me to hear you say that.
Arthur: Do you want to be released from the engagement?
Guinevere: No. I want to marry you. Not your crown, not your army. Just you.
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