Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.
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Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?
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Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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Wait and hope!
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.