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Christine Doinel: Virgin at twenty. I was a living anachronism, a real creep!
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Christine Doinel: I don't like this business of writing about your childhood, dragging your parents through the mud. I don't know much, but one thing I do know - if you use art to settle accounts, it's no longer art.
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Christine Doinel: Oh, my poor breasts. If I have a child, I won't breast-feed him.
Antoine Doinel: Well, don't look at me. He'll have to fend for himself.
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Christine Doinel: Do what you have to do, but let me be. I'm not proud and never have been, so I can tell you: I still love you. But I'd rather not see you anymore.
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Antoine Doinel: l'd like to kiss you.
Christine Doinel: Me too...
Antoine Doinel: Tenderly.
Christine Doinel: Me too...
Antoine Doinel: Is that true?
Christine Doinel: It's true.
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Antoine Doinel: You're my sister, you're my daughter, you're my mother.
Christine Doinel: I would have liked to be your wife.
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Silvana, la femme du ténor: All men are children
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Antoine Doinel: Bored? I don't know what boredom is. I've heard people talk about it but I don't know what it is. There's always something to do: cut the pages of a book, do crossword puzzles, take notes. I wish there were 30 hours in a day cause I never get bored. I can't wait to get old so I can get by on five hours sleep. Why am I even discussing this? I'm going to the bathroom.
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