The Walls of Malapaga (1949)

Jean Gabin: Pierre Arrignon

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• Pierre Arrignon : [to a Monk asking for a donation]  I'm broke.

  Monk : As long as there is good...

  Pierre Arrignon : But there isn't any.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.