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The Balcony (1956)
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If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.
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It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.
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One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
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So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
December 19, 1910
Died:
April 15, 1986
(aged 75)
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