Buchverkäufer: 29.80. Would you like it gift wrapped?Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No. It's for me.
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Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam?Christa-Maria Sieland: Go away. I want to be alone.Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Madam Sieland?Christa-Maria Sieland: Do we know each other?Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.Christa-Maria Sieland: Actors are never "who they are."Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know what I'm like.Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I'm your audience.Christa-Maria Sieland: I have to go.Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Where to?Christa-Maria Sieland: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.Christa-Maria Sieland: No?Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No.Christa-Maria Sieland: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?Christa-Maria Sieland: And you are a good man.
An innocent prisoner will become more angry by the hour due to the injustice suffered. He will shout and rage. A guilty prisoner becomes more calm and quiet. Or he cries. He knows he's there for a reason. The best way to establish guilt or innocence is non-stop interrogation.
You know what Lenin said about Beethoven's Appassionata, 'If I keep listening to it, I won't finish the revolution.' Can anyone who has heard this music, I mean truly heard it, really be a bad person?