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- Why?
- Must you know the reason for everything?
- It might help a little if we did.

8 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:50:37 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What followed was a numbed confusion, a nightmare in which I lived in a half dream world, a horrible world.

- Now I have awakened. Sometimes I wonder if that world ever existed.

- You've been through a terrible ordeal, but you mustn't allow it to take hold of you.

- It hasn't.

- Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

- But that's giving up life.

- We must all give it up sooner or later.

- Yes, but not before our time.

- Why?

- Must you know the reason for everything?

- It might help a little if we did.

- Life is beyond reason. That's why you must go on if it's only to fulfill your destiny.

- My destiny.

(People Applauding)

- Check your hat?

- Why anyone wants to go up in the Eiffel Tower at night, I can't understand. You can't see a thing.

[...]

Monsieur Verdoux Sound Clip

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Memorable quotes from the movie Monsieur Verdoux (1947), featuring short sound bites and sfx.

Actors: Charlie Chaplin (Monsieur Henri Verdoux), Martha Raye (Annabella Bonheur)

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