Alexandre Dumas Quotes
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.
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I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
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And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.
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...and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
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We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.
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In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.
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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
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I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
