Are we men or are we children? Of what use are all these melodramatic gestures?

— Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff)

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

You can hear this line at 00:30:39.091 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Is she not beautiful? I wanted to have her beauty always.

- I loved her, too, Vitus.

- Lies. All lies, Hjalmar.

- You killed her. You killed her as I am about to kill you!

- Come, Vitus.

- Are we men or are we children? Of what use are all these melodramatic gestures?

- You say your soul was killed, that you have been dead all these years.

- And what of me? Did we not both die here in Marmorus 15 years ago?

- Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead?

- And now you come to me playing at being an avenging angel, childishly thirsting for my blood.

[...]

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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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