Mahler (1974)
Georgina Hale: Alma Mahler
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Quotes
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[first lines]
Alma Mahler : How do you feel? You dropped off.
Gustav Mahler : Fine. I slept like a log. No, like a rock. The first movement of the 3rd Symphony kept running through my head.
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Gustav Mahler : You were part of the dream too.
Alma Mahler : A pebble, I suppose.
Gustav Mahler : No, you were a living creature, struggling to be born.
Alma Mahler : At last! You've noticed.
Gustav Mahler : A chrysalis.
Alma Mahler : Ready to turn into a pretty, painted butterfly.
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Alma Mahler : All your music is a hymn to nature.
Gustav Mahler : Not quite all. You forget the most important title: what love tells me.
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Gustav Mahler : It's about time you changed your tune.
Alma Mahler : I have plenty of tunes, until you killed them all.
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Alma Mahler : You're a fine one to talk - you and your *busty* Opera star.
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Alma Mahler : It's terrible to destroy something that's alive and nobody notices. It's terrible. It changes you.
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Gustav Mahler : Before we get to Vienna, you must choose between Max or me.
Alma Mahler : Gustav, please.
Gustav Mahler : Your choice must be made out of love, not duty. Duty destroys. Duty always destroys.
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Alma Mahler : You're inhuman! You'd rather sacrifice the lot of us, than lose one note - of your wretched music!
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Alma Mahler : What is the meaning of this? Songs on the Death of Children? Why not Songs on the Joy of Children? Songs on the *Life* of Children?
Gustav Mahler : There are many forms of death. Those songs - they're on the death of innocence! I don't choose what I compose. It is he who chooses me! Now, you take care of the children and I'll take care of the music.
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Alma Mahler : As long as I thought you loved me, I didn't mind being your housekeeper, your music copyist, or your whore. One day, I thought you'd stop loving your music and start to loving me.
Gustav Mahler : Did you never realize - my music is my love for you. It is - you.
Alma Mahler : I thought it was all about the birds and the bees.
