Sonja I do believe that this is truly the best of all possible worlds.
Well, it's certainly the most expensive.
2nd most-quoted character in Love and Death (1975): in 12 of its 24 quotes
Most scenes with: Boris Grushenko (10)
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.
Scenes with Sonja
11 scenes Sonja
Sonya
But, if there is no God, then life has no meaning. Why go on living? Why not just commit suicide?
Boris Gruschenko
Well, let's not get hysterical. I could be wrong. I'd hate to blow my brains out and then read in the paper that they found something.
Sonja Boris, Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody?
Murder's immoral.
Sonja Immorality is subjective.
Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
Sonja Not in a rational scheme of perception.
Perception is irrational. It implies immanence.
Sonja But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being or to be or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself.
Yeah, I've said that many times.
Sonja [Boris doesn't want to go to war]
Boris, you can't be serious, you're talking about Mother Russia.
She's not my mother. My mother's standing right here, and she's not gonna let her youngest baby get shrapnel in his gums.
Mother He'll go and he'll fight, and I hope they will put him in the front lines.
Thanks a lot, Mom. My mother, folks.
Him
Come to my quarters tomorrow at three.
Sonja I can't.
Him
Please.
Sonja It is immoral. What time?
Him
Who is to say what is moral?
Sonja Morality is subjective.
Him
Subjectivity is objective.
Sonja Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.
Him
Not as an essential extension of ontological existence.
Sonja Could we not talk about sex so much?
[sighs]
You think I was made in God's image? Take a look at me. You think he wears glasses?
Sonja Not with those frames.
Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness.
Sonja What did you say?
Oh [sighs], I was just planning my future.
Sonja "Violence is justified in the service of mankind!"
Who said that?
Sonja Attila the Hun.
You're quoting a Hun to me?
Sonja Oh, Boris, I'm so unhappy.
Ohh, I wish you weren't.
Sonja Voskovec and I quarrel frequently. I've become a scandal.
Poor Sonja.
Sonja For the past weeks, I've visited Seretski in his room.
Why? What's in his room? Oh...
Sonja And before Seretski, Aleksei, and before Aleksei, Alegorian, and before Alegorian, Asimov, and...
Okay!
Sonja Wait, I'm still on the A's.
How many lovers do you have?
Sonja In the mid-town area?
Sonja Sex without love is an empty experience.
Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Sonja That is so jejune!
Jejune? You have the temerity to accuse me of quoting to you out of jejunosity? I'm the most june person there is!
Sonja [Sonja sees Boris standing with death]
Boris! What happened?
I got screwed.
Sonja How?
I don't know. This vision came and said I was going to get pardoned, and then they shot me.
Sonja You were my one great love!
Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm dead.
Sonja What's it like?
What's it like? You know the chicken at Tresky's Restaurant?
Sonja Yeah.
It's worse.
