- That isn't love.
- What is love?
- Giving, sacrificing. The same thing a mother feels for her child.
9 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:04:38 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Women are of the earth, realistic, dominated by physical facts.
- How little you know about women.
- Giving, sacrificing. The same thing a mother feels for her child.
- Yes.
- Whom?
- I was.
- He died while I was in jail.
- That's a long story. He was wounded in the war, a hopeless invalid.
- That's why I loved him. He needed me, depended on me. He was like a child.
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