Eddie Constantine credited as playing...
Lemmy Caution
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- Alpha 60: What is your religion?
- Lemmy Caution: I believe in the inspirations of conscience.
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- Alpha 60: What is the privilege of the dead?
- Lemmy Caution: To die no more.
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- Alpha 60: I shall calculate so that failure is impossible.
- Lemmy Caution: I shall fight so that failure is possible.
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- Alpha 60: What is your secret? Tell me, Mr. Caution.
- Lemmy Caution: Something which never changes, day or night. The past represents its future. It advances in a straight line, yet it ends by coming full circle.
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- Natacha von Braun: Got a light?
- Lemmy Caution: I've traveled 9,000 kilometers to give it to you.
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- [last lines]
- Natacha von Braun: You're looking at me oddly.
- Lemmy Caution: Yes.
- Natacha von Braun: It's as if you're waiting for me to say something.
- Lemmy Caution: Yes.
- Natacha von Braun: I don't know what to say. I don't know the words. I was never taught them. Help me.
- Lemmy Caution: I can't, princess. You have to get there by yourself to be saved. If you can't, then you're as lost as the dead souls of Alphaville.
- Natacha von Braun: I... love... you. I love you.
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- Lemmy Caution: This isn't a bible, this is a dictionary!
- Natacha von Braun: Aren't they the same in the outlands?
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- Lemmy Caution: [voice over] It's always like that. You never understand anything. Yes, it's always like that. You never understand anything. And one night, you end it in death.
- Lemmy Caution: Anyway, it's my Journey to the End of the Night. It was my first night in Alphaville, but it seemed to me that centuries had passed.
- Engineer: They flood us with spies. Perhaps you are a spy, Mister Johnson.
- Lemmy Caution: You know I'm not, since I'm a free man.
- Engineer: [blinks] A meaningless reply. We know nothing. We record, calculate, draw conclusions.
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- Lemmy Caution: Don't budge.
- [Caution shoots]
- Lemmy Caution: That way I'm sure you'll keep your word.
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- Lemmy Caution: Yes, I am afraid of death. But for a humble secret agent, it's an everyday thing, like whiskey. And I've been drinking all my life.
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- Lemmy Caution: You never have love affairs?
- Natacha von Braun: What?
- Lemmy Caution: Has no one ever fallen in love with you?
- Natacha von Braun: In love? What's that?
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- Lemmy Caution: And what's Alpha 60?
- Henri Dickson: A giant computer, like they used to have in big business.
- Lemmy Caution: Nueva York... IBM...
- Henri Dickson: Olivetti... General Electric... Tokyorama... Alpha 60 is one hundred and fifty light years more powerful.
- Lemmy Caution: I see. People have become slaves of probabilities.
- Henri Dickson: The ideal here, in Alphaville is a technocracy, like that of termites and ants.
- Lemmy Caution: I don't understand.
- Henri Dickson: Probably one hundred and fifty light years ago, one hundred and fifty two hundred, there were artist in the ant society. Yes, artists, novelists, musicians, painters. Today, no more.
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- Lemmy Caution: I left because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
- Natacha von Braun: But it's very simple. We learned this evening that death and life are found within the same circle.
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- Natacha von Braun: In love? What's that?
- Lemmy Caution: This.
- Natacha von Braun: No. I know what that is: it's sensuality.
- Lemmy Caution: No, sensuality is a consequence. It cannot exist without love.
- Natacha von Braun: So what is love, then?