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Pierre: Cruelty is not one man wounding another, mutilating or torturing him, severing his limbs or his head, or even making him cry. The true, terrible cruelty is that a man who cuts another off, interrupting him like dots in a sentence, or looking away from him, making him an error of the gaze, an error of judgement, an error like a letter crumpled up after starting it, after writing the date
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Cruelty
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is not one man wounding another
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mutilating or torturing him
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severing his limbs or his head
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or even making him cry
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The true terrible cruelty
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is that of a man who cuts another off
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interrupting him like dots in a sentence
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or looking away from him
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making him an error of the gaze
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an error of judgement
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an error like a letter
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crumpled up after starting it
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after writing the date
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Movie Summary
Jacques is an older writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they'll have to face rejection and sickness to keep it that way.
