The Mother and the Whore (1973)

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Alexandre

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• Alexandre : How do you want to make love? Tenderly, or violently?

• Veronika : [after seeing Alexandre making the bed by jumping with the sheets on top of it]  Funny way to make a bed.

  Alexandre : I saw it done in a film. Films teach you how to live, how to make a bed.

• Alexandre : I never lose my way when it comes to liquor.

• Alexandre : I have never understood people who let their lovers. I never stopped anybody, so I always leave my. I think time passes, life, they work well together or separates people. I do nothing, I will leave time.

• Alexandre : I like people who disobeys. They say: Do not come and come. Do you say: Go and stay. As the drunks who get kicked out of bars. They say, 'Go away and come back. I do not like dignity. My only dignity is my baseness.

• Alexandre : Every morning, each day spent together is not a lost day, a massacre, a crime.

• Alexandre : It is curious, I have not ceased to suffer. I have not stuck to you, but I'm suffering. I tried to hold onto, simply to preserve what is ours. The day you stop suffering, go ahead and say that I've become something else and no longer want that to happen, because then we'll no longer find. I'm no fool, you know? Time passes, I can not fight long against him. I came for you, but if you do not know what you want. You know when you may be too late. I'm tired! I'm tired. Do you remember that film in which Michel Simon said: Look to the unfaithful wife, look at the treacherous friend grandiloquence this gives a little ridiculous that suffering? Fuck! I'm sick. Bye.

• Alexandre : Bernanos said: I can not deprive of the face and the human voice, so I write in cafes. It also said that it would do more often powerful republics if not taxed spirits.

• Alexandre's Friend : Want a drink?

  Alexandre : What a question!

• Alexandre : I can only be interested in someone who is interested in me. Although it is a question of looks. In the same way that I can not love a woman who loves me not.

• Alexandre : I wish I had known that time when the girls, on city streets and highways of the fields went into raptures before the soldiers, to the prestige of the uniform. Now go into ecstasies against SUVs. Now, young entrepreneurs, young executives, the professions have replaced the soldiers. I do not know if we won.

• Alexandre : Why snatched the hope if not even know what you want?

• Alexandre : You live with a man she didn't love because it is difficult to live with the man she loves. They make you calmer.

• Alexandre : You've always had talent to convince you that do not exist.

• Alexandre : Only known people of the same class, I know.

• Alexandre : Think you recover when in fact you get used to mediocrity. After the crisis have to forget everything. As France after the occupation, after May 68. You recover as France after May 68, my love.

• Alexandre : And now you become the wife of an executive. You will do very good match, a couple new society. A thief and a criminal. But beware, you are building on rotten foundations. Families are always lost.

• Alexandre : I wonder if there will be a montage. Although there is no chance.

• Alexandre : Should be silent or speak much, after the same thing. But searching for the words, choose this or that. Why? In general, people, women I like for external reasons that have nothing to do with them. Guest on them as a robe, a coat that could pose to another.

• Alexandre : The important thing is to know a woman, not seduce her.

• Alexandre : When the woman you love fucks a friend, is hard. But you can understand. But when mentally or rolled fucks as you say to someone who represents what makes you hate as much as him.

• Alexandre : Women are such liars.

• Alexandre : My thing is boredom. As the heretical sect of which Borges speaks, I think. And residents whose essential equality boredom. No faith or enthusiasm, but boredom, emptiness.

• Alexandre : Not having money isn't reason enough to eat poorly. As a child, stealing books. He claimed that poverty was not sufficient reason not to cultivate. There are people who have money to do nothing, but they do. Even doing things like see good movies, for example. That allows them to pretend to make a living. I don't mind them taking jobs from other people. On the contrary, injustices should be encouraged. But is that believe they are contributing something above his creation. Green enrich the world. What a program!

• Alexandre : You know? When eaten cold, feels cold, no flavor. When you eat hot feel the heat, not the flavor. When you eat something hard, feel the hardness, not the flavor. When you eat something liquid, feels liquidity, not the flavor. Hence, have to eat warm and soft.

• Alexandre : It must be very bad fall down some very well for others.

• Alexandre : Every time a girl lives with a guy, I dropped everything. It has the feeling of being a rebirth. When he delivered a single man, steal others. I think that everything that happens in the world is directed against me.

• Alexandre : I wish I could talk like that. I get more or less, but I would do it perfectly. And suddenly say at a table full of people: Apparently, black women make love very much. When the man puts his penis into the vagina say it's hot as an oven. He told me a manager of the colonies. Talking to the words of another, that's what I want. That must be freedom.

• Alexandre : See all events, the murderers always seem abstract in the newspapers, but when they come into your life, things change completely. I think the streets are full of murderers. Not potential murderers, but of actual murderers. And especially in France. If you believe that abortion is a crime, I know dozens, hundreds of murderers and their accomplices. The streets are full of murderers and really feel good. If someone were to reproach something was very surprised. They feel no remorse, they feel relief. I assume.

• Alexandre : Women who are with guys that are worthwhile, they deceive with cretins. Without doubt, this is how they assert, perhaps. It seemed to become the character of a bad movie. Cleverly devised a melodrama. When he discovers that he loves women, the woman who loved him before he discovers that he no longer loves. It's a sad story. I do not think that life can seem mysterious to those worlds that can never return. I would have preferred to die, he committed suicide. Shortly after I learned that had aborted and lived with the guy who had an abortion or who had helped him. The abortionists are the new Robins of Forests. The new knights of the Middle Ages. I do not defend the widow or the fatherless, women now free of that thing they carry in the womb. The scalpel has replaced the sword, the probe to the sword. And women always delivered his liberator. Of course, I do not like heroes. Nausea is an uneasiness noble. That's not the name that suits the sediment. A shame that lingers in my throat, I can not digest, which I can not spit. When someone leaves us and we suffer, you never know exactly why. It is not just of love, is the pride, self-esteem. I tried to stop suffering or suffer the least possible time. Knowing that one day cease to suffer. But when the earth trembles beneath your feet, when love, success, the revolution, they mean nothing. You know? The world will save the children, the soldier and the insane.

• Alexandre : You can order anything from those who accept money, even dropping their pants. To play the same game, you must have the same weapons. And learn to use them. Duels were fine. One was fighting men in the same world. The rogues and murdered with a knife in the back. I find it quite well, and suddenly hit from behind. When I make love to you, just think about death. On land, in ash.