The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
Isa Miranda: Marta Manfredini
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Quotes
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Pierre Arrignon : So, you're unhappy, too?
Marta Manfredini : I've never known happiness.
Pierre Arrignon : Can you live without it?
Marta Manfredini : Seems so. I try to forget by working.
Pierre Arrignon : It helps like - dope.
Marta Manfredini : The harder it gets, the tougher I get.
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Marta Manfredini : I live in the ruins.
Pierre Arrignon : The war?
Marta Manfredini : Some people never get over it. Others start again, in a small way. Slowly, one goes on, starting at the bottom. That's how it is.
Pierre Arrignon : Life is cockeyed!
Marta Manfredini : At least, it's life. That's something.
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Marta Manfredini : I've told you! I don't want you around!
Giuseppe, le mari de Marta : But you're my wife. Return to Nice or I'll force you to give up the kid.
Marta Manfredini : No! Never! Never! I slave as a servant to make us independent of you. I don't want her to know where and how you live. We're living in poverty, but that doesn't matter. Go! Leave me alone!
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Marta Manfredini : So long, Pierre.
Pierre Arrignon : You know my name?
Marta Manfredini : Cecchina told me.
Pierre Arrignon : So long, Marta.
Marta Manfredini : You know *my* name?
Pierre Arrignon : Like all the customers.
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Marta Manfredini : I see no farther than my nose, anyhow.
Pierre Arrignon : What do you see there?
Marta Manfredini : Eating, sleeping, the days passing, my daughter growing.
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Marta Manfredini : There's a way for everybody.
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Pierre Arrignon : [boarding a crowded bus] Let's take a taxi.
Marta Manfredini : Why? This stops in front of the restaurant.
Pierre Arrignon : So does a taxi.
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Marta Manfredini : You seem to resent me loving you.
Pierre Arrignon : You don't think that, do you?
Marta Manfredini : Does it hurt you to make me happy?
Pierre Arrignon : You're not happy.
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Marta Manfredini : I might have been happy before with a man. How lucky it didn't happen. I've missed nothing, *now*.
Pierre Arrignon : And you take a dumb-bell like me?
Marta Manfredini : A bell?
Pierre Arrignon : Not the church sort of bell. A dumb-bell is a stupid person. You'll have to learn French slang.
Marta Manfredini : Yes - my little dumb-bell.
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Marta Manfredini : Guess what my boss said?
Pierre Arrignon : What? That I owe him 2000 lire?
Marta Manfredini : No. That we'd make a nice couple.
Pierre Arrignon : Ah. The boss is always right.
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Pierre Arrignon : I'm not handsome but your beauty makes up for it.
Marta Manfredini : The woman has to be pretty.
Pierre Arrignon : And she must obey too.
Marta Manfredini : She'll do as you say. You'll have to explain a lot of things she doesn't know. She has never loved. She's not very smart.
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Marta Manfredini : Nothing is impossible, when you're in love.
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Pierre Arrignon : I'd like to see the future as you see it.
Marta Manfredini : Even with your eyes open, you mustn't give up hope, Pierre.