2011
At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
95 min
CLEAR ALL
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’
We read to know we are not alone.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.