Letter Never Sent (1960)

Evgeniy Urbanskiy: Sergey Stepanovich

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• Sergey Stepanovich : Nature carefully guards its secrets, ceding them only to the most tenacious. And brave, if you will. So, we'll keep looking, looking, and looking.

• Sergey Stepanovich : Great discoveries need great patience.

• Andrey : Sergei, you've fallen in love with a girl who loves someone else, and that man loves her. From the moral standpoint it's wrong.

  Sergey Stepanovich : I don't give a damn about your bookish morale. I'm in love.

  Andrey : That's an egoist speaking.

• Sergey Stepanovich : I won't give up. I've been waiting for this feeling all my life.

  Andrey : I can understand that. But what distinguishes a man from a beast is his ability to control unnecessary emotions.

  Sergey Stepanovich : Fish! Cold-blooded, big-headed fish! How can Tatiana love such a mosquito of a man!

• Konstantin Sabinin : Guys, we'll drink the other half of the cognac when we find the diamonds. Is that clear?

  Tanya : We'll drink for joy.

  Andrey : If we fail, we'll drink for grief.

  Sergey Stepanovich : I am all for drinking whichever way it turns out.

• Andrey : Konstantin, don't you think we should look for a diamond pipe in a different place?

  Konstantin Sabinin : It was here that the geophysicists found an interesting anomaly. You know about it.

  Andrey : We do.

  Konstantin Sabinin : And so?

  Tanya : They can be mistaken.

  Konstantin Sabinin : Right, but hardly a consolation.

  Tanya : Maybe previous results were accidental.

  Konstantin Sabinin : Well, if scientific conclusions, mental calculations, and scientific intuition are nothing but mistakes and fortuity, why are we digging here? The diamond pipe must be somewhere out there.

  Sergey Stepanovich : Somewhere out there. I've heard this a million times. You are possessed, Kostia.

  Konstantin Sabinin : Otherwise you can't accomplish anything within the short human lifetime.