- 1. Werner: I intend to give you my current thoughts on an idea I've been committed to for 40 years. Every generation yearns for light. It needs reassurance and faith that the world can be better and a fairer place. This yearning which is older than Marx and younger than Marx, is like a drug. Early in life it brings joy, because the light seems so near and within reach. At life's end it brings bitterness, because the light has grown once again. In these 40 years I've lived through many things and the light seems further away than ever before, and thus I shouldn't encourage you, but you can be sure of one thing: without bitterness and this hope, life would be pitiful indeed.
- 1. Adam: If he'd gotten out before me, he'd be in my shoes and I in his.
- Witek Dlugosz: You think it was chance?
- 1. Werner: I confessed at the trial. Not immediately. But, I understood that I'd have to confess to something I hadn't done or even thought of doing.
- 1. Adam: We're going through one of those times when you can see that everything's falling apart. The people running things are helpless. These structures are bound to crack. It's just a matter of time.
- Witek Dlugosz: How can a man go on believing in an ideal that destroyed so much of his life?
- 1. Adam: Every idea has its period of error.
- 1. Czuszka: The first was a boy at a scout camp. My panties were too tight. To make things worse, his buddy next to us pretended to be asleep but kept panting why whole time. My panties kept pulling on me. Afterward, my skin was all chafed.
- Witek Dlugosz: Czuszka, I'm all mixed up.
- 1. Czuszka: You're supposed to go to France.
- Witek Dlugosz: I don't want to go.
- 1. Czuszka: Go. Then come back and marry the daughter of some Politburo hack. When you're made a minister, call me up so I can spit in your face.
- Witek Dlugosz: What terrifies me is that one must forfeit one's freedom and be so completely dependent.
- 1. Adam: That's how organizations are.
- Witek Dlugosz: We've been talking for ages. We must have said all there is to say.
- 2. Werka: I doubt it. There are so many things you can't tell another person.
- Witek Dlugosz: In the fourth year, during an autopsy, one girl had a very strange look on her face. They were cutting open her former teacher, whom she had hated. She told me afterwards she'd imagined that she herself was cutting the woman open. Why am I telling you this?
- 2. Werka: Because I told you about the movie "Manhattan."
- 2. Christian Woman: No need to feel ashamed. We're all scared.
- Witek Dlugosz: If I hadn't missed a train here a month ago, I wouldn't be here with you now.
- 2. Ksiadz Stefan: It's not just chance.
- Witek Dlugosz: Sometimes I think it is.
- 2. Christian Woman: My life at this point is a gift. The doctors gave me three years to live after the operation and that was 12 years ago. If God's given me the gift of life, I have nothing to fear.