- This is a very interesting house you have here. Has an atmosphere, kind of, uh...
- It is indeed hard to describe. As hard to describe as life or, or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death.

— Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi)

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17 seconds sound clip from the The Black Cat (1934) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:16:29.915 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I traced the two of you there, and to Spain and to South America, and finally here.

- Where is she?

- Vitus, you are mad.

- Where is she? (2)

- Sorry if I'm intruding.

- Not at all. Do come in, we were just going to have something to drink. Now perhaps you will join us? And what would you like?

- Oh, uh, whiskey.

- Whiskey.

- This is a very interesting house you have here. Has an atmosphere, kind of, uh...

- It is indeed hard to describe. As hard to describe as life or, or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death.

- This place was built on the ruins of that same Fort Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly.

- Herr Poelzig commanded Marmorus during the last years of the war.

- He is perhaps sentimental about this spot.

- And as for the house being interesting, an architectural chef-d'oeuvre, it could not be otherwise.

[...]

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The black cat does not die. Those same books, if I am not mistaken, teach that the black cat is deathless. Deathless as evil. It is the origin of the common superstition of the cat with nine lives.
Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?
A masterpiece of construction built upon the ruins of the masterpiece of destruction. The masterpiece of murder.
Humanum est erare.
Did you hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead.

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