The Chairs
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OLD MAN: Listen to me, I've had a rich experience of life. In all walks of life, at every level of thought... I'm not an egotist: humanity must profit by what I've learned.
OLD MAN [to Belle]: Will you be my Isolde and let me be your Tristan? Beauty is more than skin deep, it's in the heart ... Do you understand? We could have had the pleasure of sharing, joy, beauty, eternity... an eternity... Why didn't we dare? We weren't brave enough ... Everything is lost, lost, lost.
'' I'm not like other people, I have an ideal in life. I am perhaps gifted, as you say, I have some talent, but things aren't easy for me...''
Above all I had hoped
that together we might lie
with all our bones together
within the selfsame skin
within the same sepulchre
and that the same worms
might share our old flesh
that we might rot together
"In order to prevent the exploitation of man by man, we need money, money, and still more money!"
OLD MAN : Things have certainly changed.
OLD WOMAN : Why is that, do you think?
OLD MAN : I don't know, Semiramis, sweetheart... Perhaps it's because the further one goes, the deeper one sinks. It's because the earth keeps turning around, around, around, around ...