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Read more Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler QuotesFrom: The Lives of Others
Junge mit Ball: Are you really with the Stasi?Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Do you even know what the Stasi is?Junge mit Ball: Yes. They're bad men who put people in prison, says my dad.Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: I see. What is the name of your...Junge mit Ball: My what?Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: Ball. What's the name of your ball?Junge mit Ball: You're funny. Balls don't have names.
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.
The state office for statistics on Hans-Beimler street counts everything; knows everything: how many pairs of shoes I buy a year: 2.3, how many books I read a year: 3.2 and how many students graduate with perfect marks: 6,347. But there's one statistic that isn't collected there, perhaps because such numbers cause even paper-pushers pain: and that is the suicide rate.