Sleep, my dear Chevalley, eternal sleep, that is what Sicilians want. And they will...
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Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Sleep, my dear Chevalley, eternal sleep, that is what Sicilians want. And they will always resent anyone who tries to awaken them, even to bring them the most wonderful of gifts. And, between ourselves, I doubt very strongly whether this new Kingdom has very many gifts for us in its luggage. All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really a wish for death. Our sensuality, wish for oblivion. Our knifings and shootings, a hankering after extinction. Our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a desire for voluptuous immobility, that is... for death again
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Sleep my dear Chevalley a long sleep
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that is what Sicilians want
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They will always hate anyone who tries to wake them
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even to bring them the most wonderful gifts
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And between ourselves I doubt whether the new kingdom
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will have many gifts for us in its luggage
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Here all expression even the most violent is a desire for oblivion
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Our sensuality is a longing for oblivion
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Our knifings and shootings are a longing for death
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Our laziness
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the penetrating sweetness of our sherbets
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a longing for voluptuous immobility that is
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death once again
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Movie Summary
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
