Le premier homme Page #5

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and brings the money home.

But, how can I say...

Sometimes we think too much

about what we have today

and we forget about what

we could have tomorrow.

Will you go to the

school for grown-ups?

Yes, middle school.

It's expensive.

Will he paw?

No, I'm entitled to a scholarship.

What's a scholarship?

When you are a good student...

or when you are poor

...they give you the money.

You're both.

So you're rich

Here, smoke.

Smoke.

Watch.

Like a watermelon.

Your turn Come on

Nice and easy, and inhale

Exhale.

That's it!

You're soiling the floor!

Mr Bernard!

Good day.

The professor went out

fora cup of coffee.

2.50, here you go.

Nice! Are you taking

advantage of me?

- Can someone take my place?

- Yes.

Without you, without the hand

you have affectionately given...

...to a poor child that I was...

without your teachings

and your example...

none of this would've existed

The dedication is too generous

don't deserve that much.

Do you remember what

I told you in school?

You've said many things...

A child is but a germ

of a man he'll become.

It's partly true.

I remember another thing.

Your words about God.

I never spoke about God.

True, but one day you said:

"Some believe, others don't.

Everyone should be free to decide."

It was very brave.

You were like a father to me.

But I came back from the war,

your father didn't.

Sometimes it's hard to

accept your own luck.

Luck is like God, it doesn't exist.

No, I don't agree.

You had the luck

of having two exceptional

women to raise you.

It took me a long time to figure out

in what conditions your family lived

Your face was filled with serenity.

How is your mother?

- Courageous, as always

- She's much too alone.

It's been a long time

since you last came to Algiers

The students almost forced me.

Yes, but you must help

them understand, it's your duty

Things are difficult for everyone.

You should write a book about us.

About our tragedy.

I've written so much

and they insulted me

I'm not talking about an essay

or newspaper articles...

I'm talking about a novel, because

it is there that the truth is found.

Russia is not what you

see in history books...

...it's in Tolstoy's,

Dostoyevsky's books

Give me a subject,

like you did in school

Liberty, equality, fraternity:

"What happened to

France's values here, in Algeria."

It's a difficult subject.

- Even for you?

- Especially for me.

There were two temples in Corinth.

The temple of necessity

and the temple of violence

They were so dose to each other

that you could enter

either one without distinction.

Is that how it should be?

Yes, sometimes.

Do you understand?

The error is not the revolution.

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