The Best Offer

& Virgil Oldman: A love of art and knowing how to hold a brush doesn’t make an artist. You need an inner mystery.

& Robert: You know, gearboxes are like people. If they’ve been together long enough, eventually, they take on each other’s forms.

& Virgil Oldman: You have all the time in the world to make up your mind... Don’t torment yourself. Think of yourself, your future.
    Claire: That’s the biggest torment of all.

& Robert: Why did you never marry? You know, never have kids?
    Virgil Oldman: The regard I have for women is equal to the fear I’ve always had of them... and to my failure to understand them.

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& Virgil Oldman: Lambert, are you married?
    Lambert: Yes. Nearly 30 years.
    Virgil Oldman: What’s it like, living with a woman?
    Lambert: Like taking part in an auction. You never know if yours will be the best offer.

& Billy: Human emotions are like works of art. They can be forged. They seem just like the original, but they’re a forgery.
    Virgil Oldman: Forgery?
    Billy: Everything can be faked, Virgil. Joy, pain, hate. Illness, recovery. Even love.

& Virgil Oldman: I can’t wait to get back home.
    Claire: Good luck, my darling.

& Robert: “There is always something authentic concealed in every forgery.” I couldn’t agree more.

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Σ Almost perfect piece of art. Exemplary movie. As it just must be.

   It ought to get [as minimum] a couple of Oscars.