Gertrud Kanning:
I was thinking about your creed, remember?
Gabriel Lidman:
I don't know what you mean.
Gertrud Kanning:
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No, one never remembers everything, but the creed went: 'I believe in the pleasure of the flesh and the irreparable loneliness of the soul.'
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Gabriel Lidman:
Oh yes. That sounds like me.
Gertrud Kanning:
The gardener has been told that only grass shall grow on my grave and in springtime I shall have anemones. You'll come by one day, pick an anemone and think of me. Take it as a word of love that was thought, but never spoken.