Quotes from Philippe Noiret movies and TV shows

Murphy: Louis, the doctor lady... she's a Quaker. That's like bein' a bloody nun, isn't it?
Brezan: No, I don't think so.
Murphy: Why couldn't she be any young nurse? Something practical.

Brezan: Man is only truly alive when he confronts death.
Murphy: He can also be truly dead.

Brezan: You're a small and lonely man, Murphy. Like me. The world will never build us a monument. The difference is I know that.

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Pablo Neruda: Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often.

Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.

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