La viaccia (1961)

Claudia Cardinale: Bianca

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• Amerigo : I wonder how you were at 15.

  Bianca : As I am now, I assure you. Well developed. Don't you like me as I am?

• Bianca : Come on, out! Nobody trifles with Bianca.

• Bianca : With all this in and out, the day never ends.

• Amerigo : So, you recognized me.

  Bianca : Don't you know we're worse than cops?

• Bianca : Well? Are you stunned? What is it? Am I impressing you so much?

  Amerigo : Yes, for how beautiful you are.

  Bianca : Then, buy me! Bianca doesn't cost much anyway. Come on, let's go.

• Bianca : You did all right. At times, I need someone to make me realize how disgusting I am.

• Bianca : Maybe I'm the first woman you've dealt with.

  Amerigo : Yes and no.

  Bianca : I don't mean girlfriends, you may have had some. But, when you came to town, have you ever been with women like me? Tell the truth. Maybe I'm the first luxury girl that you've known. But what luxury? It's a room like any other.

• Bianca : You see him? He's waiting for me. He too would like to redeem me. He'd set me up in a home and all. And I should put up with him alone. I prefer to be paid well where I am and that he waits the whole evening. He gives me what I want. What you'd earn in a month, I bet. Look at him. He sleeps. I'd rather endure one hundred like him than just one. One cancels out the other. If I were his kept woman, you know the scenes whenever I wanted an Amerigo. Go. Go away.

• Bianca : I'm not good, Amerigo, I never was. And anyway, I no longer want to be.

• Amerigo : You are...

  Bianca : You're not able to say it. I'm a slut. But, a slut with brains.

• Bianca : When he comes back, welcome him. He won't touch me again! I want to see him end up - I want to see him end up at the bottom!

• Amerigo : A bit of love doesn't matter?

  Bianca : No! You know why we love each other? Because we're good together in bed. It's nothing to do with the heart. I don't know what it is, the heart. When I think of you, it's for desire. Desire, understand? You must like me for what I am. Because you have the same desire. Which comes and goes. It doesn't involve sentiment. Nothing.

  Amerigo : So, what should I do?

  Bianca : Oh, God, he didn't get it! Lie down beside me, as before. I seemed to touch the sky, so much I wanted you. There, together. Without paying, without being paid. Is there anything more honest? We're beasts. Not humans. We're beasts.

• Bianca : Let's go upstairs. Help me remove the corset. It squeezes so that I can't breathe.

• Bianca : You wanted to make love. And then saying, "We'll go together through the world, we'll work, we'll love each other. Do you feel how much I love you? You make me feel filthier than I've ever been!