love war and death

Bennett 2022-03-25 09:01:19

Lovers are hit by heavy moving rain on an early morning street. what is love? Love is a harmless mental illness. The sweet dizziness of running towards the lover on the spiral staircase is exactly the same as the perspective obscured by the smoke of the dying. Air raids, pianos, despair, and two people with each other's minds replace the aggression of war with sound. Snow in Siberia, running people, trains, moving, falling fantasy. The little squirrel, the lost lover, the lost letter, the nightmare of the war.

Don't let her hold flowers, let her hold her lover

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The Cranes Are Flying quotes

  • [first lines]

    Boris: Wait, squirrel! Here. Put it on.

  • Fyodor Ivanovich: Stop it this minute! You're a still a soldier in the Red Army! Are you trying to get discharged? Are you afraid we'll heal your hands and send you back to the front?

    A patient in the infirmary: No, Doctor, he's not like that. He got a letter.

    Fyodor Ivanovich: I know. That's just an excuse. Big deal! So your bride ran off. You should be glad! She isn't worth a penny if she would trade a handsome guy like you, a real hero, for some rat sitting out the war at home! It's she who's forfeit her happiness, not you! And that's what she deserves. She's got a petty soul. People like her can't understand how much suffering we've gone through. You stood up to death itself. You looked death in the face. You approached it with your chest stuck out. And she couldn't even pass the little test of time. Woman like her deserve only your contempt. There can be no forgiveness for them!