- Bela has entered a much better world than this. At least, so you ministers always say, sir.
- And so it is. But that's no reason to hold a pagan celebration.
12 seconds sound clip from the The Wolf Man (1941) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:27:01.640 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men hadn't all eternity.
- Well, you'll be declaring me a mental case next.
- Thank you. In return, I won't question your patient again, until you think fit.
- It's the Gypsy fortune-teller.
- And the man that killed him.
- But, my dear woman, we can't bury this man without prayer.
- There is nothing to pray for, sir.
- Bela has entered a much better world than this. At least, so you ministers always say, sir.
- And so it is. But that's no reason to hold a pagan celebration.
- I hear your people are coming to town, dancing and singing and making merry.
- For a thousand years, we Gypsies have buried our dead like that.
- I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.
- Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.
- The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own.
- But as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.
- Your suffering is over, Bela, my son. Now you will find peace.
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