The Fire Within (1963)

Tony Taffin: Brancion

Quotes 

• Alain Leroy : I left my youth for another life.

  Brancion : You turn your back. You reject adulthood. You're stuck in adolescence. Hence your anxiety. It's hard to be a man. You have to want to be one.

• Alain Leroy : I've had enough. I'm calling it a day. I refuse to grow old.

  Brancion : You miss your youth as if you'd lived it to the fullest.

  Alain Leroy : It was a promise. And a lie. I was the liar.

• Cyrille Lavaud : Hong Kong is overrated. Oriental eroticism, based on my own little experience, is nothing like what they say.

  Maria : But there's Chinese erotica.

  Brancion : There's nothing erotic about it. Eroticism is a Western invention, a Christian concept based on ideas of good and evil, transgression and original sin. These concepts don't exist there.

• Brancion : You work in Versailles?

  Alain Leroy : I don't work.

  Brancion : Private income?

  Alain Leroy : I'm sick.

  Brancion : So that's why.

  Alain Leroy : What?

  Brancion : Why you look so pale. What's the problem?

  Alain Leroy : My heart.

• Brancion : Chinese libertines are pure hedonists for whom love is a pleasure which they seek to refine. It's something esthetic, whereas for us it's a concept.

• Brancion : Where did all this start? If I knew, maybe I could help you.

  Alain Leroy : Alcohol was in my blood before I realized it.