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Madame Blanc: When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator. You empty yourself so that her work can live within you. Do you understand?
Susie Bannion: Yeah.
Madame Blanc: You're in a company now. You have to find your right place. You have to decide - what is it you want to be in this company? Is it the head? The spine? The sex? The heart?
Susie Bannion: The hands. I want to be this company's hands.
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Susie Bannion: [to Madame Blanc, communicated telepathically] It's all a mess. The one out there...
[spoken]
Susie Bannion: The one in here... the one that's coming. Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over?
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Susie Bannion: Death to any other Mother.
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Dr. Josef Klemperer: [to Sara] Patricia wrote about "Three Mothers" lost to time, predating all Christian invention. Pre-God, pre-devil. Mother Tenebrarum, Mother Lachrymarum and Mother Suspiriorum. Darkness, tears, and sighs.
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Susie Bannion: [When asked what dance feels like to her] It felt like what I think it must feel like to fuck.
Madame Blanc: Do you mean fuck a man?
Susie Bannion: No. I was thinking of an animal.
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Dr. Josef Klemperer: A delusion is lies that tell truth.
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Madame Blanc: It's difficult not to be curious about you.
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Dr. Josef Klemperer: Love and manipulation, they share houses very often. They are frequent bedfellows.
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Susie Bannion: [in German, to Dr. Klemperer] We need guilt, Doctor. And shame. But not yours.
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Miss Huller: [to Dr. Klemperer] When women tell you the truth, you don't pity them. You tell them they have delusions!
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Helena Markos: This isn't vanity! This isn't art!
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Patricia: [to Dr. Klemperer, in English] If they find me here, they won't hesitate.
[in German]
Patricia: They'll hollow me out and eat my cunt on a plate.
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Madame Blanc: You don't look better, or are you this pale all the time?
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Sara: You're making some kind of deal with them.
Susie Bannion: I don't know what you're talking about.
Sara: The matrons.
Susie Bannion: Whatever you have in your head, Sara, nothing is wrong.
Sara: How can you know what they'll ask of you in return?
Susie Bannion: Nothing's wrong.
Sara: You just haven't seen the bill yet.
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Susie Bannion: For whom were you anointed? Which of the Three Mothers?
Helena Markos: [panicked] Mother... Mother Suspiriorum!
[Death approaches and strokes Mother Markos's face]
Susie Bannion: I am She.
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Susie Bannion: Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over?
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Susie Bannion: Dance everyone, dance. It's so beautiful.
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Mother Suspiriorum: What do you ask?
Olga: To die.
[Mother Suspiriorum kisses Olga's cheek and Olga collapses]
Patricia: Mother... Mother, we're so tired.
Mother Suspiriorum: What do you ask?
Patricia: To die. I want to die.
[Mother Suspiriorum kisses Patricia's cheek and Patricia collapses; Sara knees down]
Mother Suspiriorum: Sweet girl, what do you ask?
Sara: Die.
[Mother Suspiriorum leans down and cradles Sara]
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Helena Markos: [to Susie] There will be nothing of you left inside. Only space for me.
Susie Bannion: I came here for this. You've all waited long enough.
Helena Markos: [Excited] It is happening! It is happening!
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Miss Tanner: [about Patricia, in subtitled German] She didn't want to be a vessel. We wanted to bring her into our power but she wanted to blow up department stores instead. What a fool, that girl.
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Olga: Why don't you try speaking to me like you love me? Hm? For a change?
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Madame Blanc: Movement is never mute. It is a language. It's a series of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences. Like poems. Like prayers.
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Madame Blanc: Part of the issue always is not being able to see your body in space. One angle in one mirror or on film is not enough. Movement is never mute. It is a language. It's a shape of energetic shapes written in the air like words forming sentences. Like poems. Like prayers.
Susie Bannion: Spells?
Madame Blanc: When you jump, it's not the height, but the space beneath you that matters. Every leap into the air must be a coup de foudre.
Susie Bannion: I don't understand.
Madame Blanc: A strike of lightning. A bolt of love, in fact.
Susie Bannion: That's beautiful.
Madame Blanc: There are two things that dance can never be again: beautiful and cheerful. Today, we need to break the nose of every beautiful thing. And if you're going to be a dancer, you must learn French.
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Dr. Josef Klemperer: You can give someone your delusion, Sara. That's religion.
[pause]
Dr. Josef Klemperer: That is the Reich.
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Miss Millius: Markos!
Suspiria Quotes
Extended Reading
