Notes from Underground (1995)

Henry Czerny: The Underground Man

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• [last lines] 

  The Underground Man : Maybe I'm more alive than you. But that's it. No more notes from the underground.

• The Underground Man : Love, Liza. Love is everything.

• [first lines] 

  The Underground Man : I'm a sick man. I think it's my liver but I refuse to see a doctor. From spite. I'm a spiteful man. I've been living like this for a long time. I used to work in the Building Department but I don't now. I was a bad civil servant. I was unciviled. I was spiteful. No, no, no, no. That's a lie! I'm not spiteful. Uh, I'm not anything. But I am sick. I'm crippled from too much introspection, as in too much awareness is a disease, a crippling disease, absolutely.

• The Underground Man : Look at me. Look at me. Look at me! I'm a worm, ridiculous, petty, diseased. But other worms aren't ashamed or embarassed. That's my curse.

• The Underground Man : I can't be good.