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Nymphomaniac : Volume 2

Joe: Nobody knew his secret. Most probably not even himself. He sat there with his shame. I suppose I sucked him off, is a kind of apology.
Seligman: That's unbelievable!
Joe: Listen to me. This is a man who had succeeded in repressing his own desire, who had never before given into it right up until I forced it out. He had lived a life full of denial and had never hurt a soul. I think that's laudable.
Seligman: No matter how much I try, I can't find anything laudable in pedophilia.
Joe: That's because you think about the, perhaps 5% who actually hurt children. The remaining 95% never live out their fantasies. Think about their suffering. Sexuality is the strongest force in human beings. To be born with a forbidden sexuality must be agonizing. The pedophile who manages to get through life with the shame of his desire, while never acting on it, deserves a bloody medal.

Joe: We elevate those who say right but mean wrong, and mock those who say wrong but mean right.

Joe: Dear everyone, don't think it's been easy, but I understand now that we're not and never will be alike.
[to Tania]
Joe: I'm not like you, who fucks to be validated and might just as well give up putting cocks inside of you. You already got your bloody kick a long time ago when it turned out that someone was even bothered to fuck you.
[to Brunhelda]
Joe: And I'm not like you. Eat yourself to death if you want. I have no pity for you. All you want is to be filled up and whether it's by a man or by tons of disgusting slop makes no difference because it's all just a pathetic attempt at filling out your own resounding emptiness and hiding your ridiculous egocentric self-loathing.
[to the Therapist]
Joe: And I'm definitely not like you. That empathy you claim is a lie because all you are is society's morality police whose duty is to erase my obscenity from the surface of the Earth so that the bourgeoisie won't feel sick.
[to the entire group]
Joe: I'm not like you. I am a nymphomaniac and I love myself for being one, but above all, I love my cunt and my filthy, dirty lust.

Joe: Each time a word becomes prohibited, you remove a stone from the Democratic foundation. Society demonstrates its impotence in the face of a concrete problem by removing words from the language. And I say that society is as cowardly as the people in it, who in my opinion are also too stupid for democracy.

Joe's Father: It's actually
[pauses]
Joe's Father: the souls of the trees that we see in the winter.
Young Joe: I think they look like human souls.
Joe's Father: You're right. They do look like human souls. Twisted souls. Regular Souls. Crazy souls. All depending on the kind of lives human beings lead.

Joe: The human qualities can be expressed in one word: Hypocrisy. We elevate those who say "right" but mean "wrong" and mock those who say "wrong" but mean "right." By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negros don't turn them on, they're lying.

Joe: Even though only one in a million, as my dubious therapist said, succeed in mentally, bodily, and in her heart ridding herself of her sexuality, this is now my goal.
Seligman: But is that a life worth living?
Joe: It's the only way I can live it. I will stand up against all odds, just like a deformed tree on a hill. I will muster all my stubbornness, my strength, my masculine aggression.

Joe's Father: I've found my tree. My soul tree. And no, it's not that one, okay, 'cause then I would be dead.
[shows Joe a large oak tree]
Joe's Father: This is my tree.
Joe - 10 Years: It's not an ash tree.
Joe's Father: No, it's an oak tree.
Joe - 10 Years: It has two trunks.
Joe's Father: Yeah, isn't it great? It shows itself to both sides, the lake and the forest.
Joe - 10 Years: But, dad, how does a tree get two trunks?
Joe's Father: The most common reason is that the top broke when it was very young.
Joe - 10 Years: That means that you've been broken once. Have you, dad?
Joe's Father: [long pause] It seems that it can be rather revealing... to find your soul tree.

Joe: It's said to be difficult to take someone's life. I would've said that it's more difficult not to. For a human being, killing is the most natural thing in the world. We're created for it.

Joe: By the way, I can assure you that women who claim that negroes don't turn them on, are lying.
Seligman: So do they satisfy you, those negroes?
Joe: No, but they showed me there was a world far from mine I had to explore. And there perhaps on the other side get my life back.

[opening narration for "The Gun"]
Joe: Whether I left society or it left me, I cannot say. I suppose you can make an argument for both sides. I was on my way to the shady side of the debt collecting business, which, among other things, involved stuff like burning people's cars.

Seligman: [about to be shot by Joe after he attempts to rape her] But you fucked thousands of men!

Joe: [to the Debtor Gentleman as she is about to fellate him] I'm going to tell you a few stories. All you have to do is listen.

Seligman: Freud says the opposite. He talks about the polymorphic perversion of a child. Meaning that in a child, all kinds of perversions exist. And then we use the childhood to diminish or remove some of them. Basically a child is sexually polymorphic and everything is sexuality in an infant.

Joe: I seem to remember that the systematic approach to the crucifixion is of a violent and not to say sadistic nature.
Seligman: Oh yes, the passion of Christ is full of systematic violence... The Via Dolorosa, the nine stations of the cross and the 39 lashes.

Seligman: You shouldn't use that word. It's not what you call politically correct. Negro.
Joe: Well, excuse me, but in my circles, it's always been a mark of honor to call a spade a spade.

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