Anyone who has watched the movie, “The Hours,” would find the dialogue based on a book by Virginia Woolf very interesting and at the same time very occupying. In the scene which represents the following dialogue: Richard is a dying man in the late stage of HIV/AIDS and Clarissa is his loyal ladylove, who tries to comfort him.
Clarissa Vaughn: All right Richard, do me one simple favor. Come. Come sit.
Richard Brown: I don't think I can make it to the party, Clarissa.
Clarissa Vaughn: You don't have to go to the party, you don't have to go to the ceremony, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. You can do as you like.
Richard Brown: But I still have to face the hours, don't I? I mean, the hours after the party, and the hours after that...
Clarissa Vaughn: You do have good days still. You know you do.
Richard Brown: Not really. I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true.
Clarissa Vaughn: You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Clarissa Vaughn: That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
Clarissa Vaughn: Dear ... To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Richard, always the years between us, always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
Clarissa Vaughn: I don't know what's happening to me. I seemed to be unraveling.
Richard Brown: I don't think two people could have been happier than we've been.
