Alexandre Dumas Quotes

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...

Alexandre Dumas

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• Feelings
• Despair
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• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

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• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

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• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

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• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

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• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

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• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

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• I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

  

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• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

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• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

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• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

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• It's the weirdest thing. When you go into acting, you expect to be a huge star and to be recognized... It did happen, but not in the way you expect it to... In L.A., I'm just another character actor.

  

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• The one big, humongous, immense thing that we didn't change, that we didn't figure out how to deal with is, if men and women are both going to work throughout their lives, who's going to take care of the kids?

  

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• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

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• I truly felt that was going to be my last tour. So here we are again and I'm saying this will probably be my last tour. That's truly the way I'm looking at it.

  

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• Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

  

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• You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

  

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• Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
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• Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

  

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• I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true, it is one with nature. This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersMichelangelo, Czanne, Seurat, and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.

  

  Diego Rivera
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• I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Happiness
  • Feelings
  • Despair