Jean-Paul Belmondo credited as playing...
Michele Di Libero
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- English Soldier: There are lots of good things in Italy.
- Michele Di Libero: You don't know Italy.
- English Soldier: Oh, we know Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo.
- Michele Di Libero: They are dead.
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- Cesira: There are no sins on my conscience. Well, you might count one... the day before yesterday.
- Michele Di Libero: You see?
- Cesira: It was not a sin for which I should die. And where do the children come into it?
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- Cesira: Rosetta's a saint. I'm not even worthy to be her mother.
- Michele Di Libero: No, you're something better than you think.
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- Michele Di Libero: You Germans have war in your blood.
- Ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea: War? War, my dear friend, is an experience without which a man cannot say he is a man.
- Michele Di Libero: If that's true, I would rather be castrated.
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- Cesira: [about the muscular topless man in the field] He's beautiful. Is he really a Russian?
- Michele Di Libero: A deserter.
- Cesira: They never tell you that they make them like that in Russia.
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- Paride's Friend: You talk as if you weren't an Italian.
- Michele Di Libero: I'm not, if it means staying here and stuffing my face, while the rest of the country is dying. We're pigs! That's what we are! All pigs!
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- Cesira: You have a girl?
- Michele Di Libero: No.
- Cesira: Come on. Didn't you ever have one?
- Michele Di Libero: No.
- Cesira: But how can you live without a woman? A normal man can't do that.
- Michele Di Libero: Today if a man can't sacrifice a little, he's of no use to himself, his family or country.
- Cesira: Right, you can do without a lot of things, but not love.
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- Michele Di Libero: You always say what is in your heart - right or wrong. I don't have the courage anymore.
- Cesira: You're too honest, that's trouble.
- Michele Di Libero: I am not honest with you.
- Cesira: With me?
- Michele Di Libero: Yes, with you.
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- Michele Di Libero: I love you, Cesira.
- Cesira: In such a troubled time, you think of things like that?