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Torquato: Oh... and who is she?
Antonio: She's a friend of mine.
Torquato: She's hot. Have you slept with her?
Antonio: Sleep Torquato, sleep. His lethargic encephalitis causes strong intellectual degradation.
Torquato: Yeah right. You leave us alone and I'll show you the... the degradation.
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Nicola Palumbo: [defending Bicycle Thieves] Mr. Superintendent, the film we saw tonight was... stupendous! Let me talk, let me talk. Through this garbage and this crap, yes sir, we recognise the true enemies of the proletariat: namely, the false defenders of grace, of poetry, of beauty and all the other hypocritical values of your bourgeois culture.
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Gianni Perego: Our generation is really disgusting.
Antonio: Why?
Gianni Perego: What? Well, look at Nicola, for example.
Antonio: What did Nicola do?
Gianni Perego: Yeah, what did Nicola do? He abandoned his family, his career, and to top it all off he ended scratching out movie reviews signing them "Vice".
Antonio: Oh, he's vice? Well then, you write for a lot of newspapers.
Gianni Perego: And all of this for what? For a brighter future.
Antonio: And so?
Gianni Perego: The future passed us by without us even realizing it.
Nicola Palumbo: What? Who says? Throwing away your life means to make the best use of it. Or do you like this one better? Living as you please is cheap because you pay for it with something that doesn't exist: happiness.
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Nicola Palumbo: We thought we'd change the world, instead the world has changed us.
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Gianni Perego: I didn't come, do you understand?
Luciana Zanon: Why did you have to? We had a fight
Gianni Perego: But I loved you
Luciana Zanon: Oh, and I thought you did not
Gianni Perego: How not? In all these years I have done nothing but think of you, always, Luciana
Luciana Zanon: But not me. Sorry Gianni, 10 years ago I married Antonio, I had two children, then the house, the job, the money that was never enough, you too have had these problems, right?
Gianni Perego: Yes, of course, but I thought that a great love was a great love
Luciana Zanon: Yes, sure. But then they were things in the past
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Elide Catenacci: Am I important to you, now?
Gianni Perego: Important... Why...? Important because you are dead? I don't know. I don't think... No. No.
Elide Catenacci: Damn! Why not?
Gianni Perego: Elide, because when someone isn't important during her life, she's not even important as a deceased!
We All Loved Each Other So Much Quotes
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