In the final cut, Morris’s confession and farewell

Hailey 2022-01-13 08:01:24

At the end of the film, Maurice's last sentence to Clive is:

No, you may not ask. I'll tell you everything up to this minute—not a word beyond.

No, you can't ask. I can tell you everything in the past, but I won't be able to tell you a single word in the future.

In fact, there is a cut clip:

Clive:

No, I care of you a little bit, otherwise I wouldn't stand what you just told me

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Maurice:

You care for me a little bit, I do think, but I can't hang all my life on a little bit. You hang yours on Anne. You don't worry whether your relation with her is platonic, you just know it's big enough to hang a life on. I can't hang mine on the five minutes you spare me from her and politics. You'll make me free of the house, and take endless bother to marry me off, because that puts me off your hands. You won't see me, and you don't love me. I was yours till death if you'd cared to keep me once. But I'm someone else's now.

I know you "a little" like me, but I can't bet my whole life on your "one point". You already have Anne. You don't have to worry about Plato enough to be with her. Anyway, you know that this kind of relationship is very good, and you have no worries in your life. You can only squeeze five minutes from her and politics to me. I can't put my life on these five minutes. You let me live here casually, find me a woman to marry endlessly, thinking that this will push me away. You don't want to see me, and you don't love me. If you care about me and you don't push me away, I will die for you. But I belong to someone else now.

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You will not see me, and you do not love me. I was yours till death if you'd cared to keep me once.

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Extended Reading

Maurice quotes

  • Lasker-Jones: England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

  • Maurice Hall: I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.