Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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