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Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)

 

FRID: Oh yes! The summer night has three smiles, and this is the first--between midnight and daybreak--when lovers open their hearts and bodies. Can you see it back there at the horizon, a smile so soft that one has to be very quiet and watchful to see it at all?

PETRA: The young lovers...

-- Ingmar Bergman Smiles of a Summer Night
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FRID: Now the summer night smiles its second smile: for the clowns, the fools, the unredeemable.

PETRA: Then she smiles for us.

-- Ingmar Bergman "Smiles of a Summer Night"
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PETRA: And then the summer night smiled for the third time.

FRID: For the sad, the depressed, the sleepless, the confused, the frightened, the lonely.

PETRA: But the clowns will have a cup of coffee in the kitchen.

-- Ingmar Bergman "Smiles of a Summer Night"
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