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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
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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Act Agony Father Humanity Man Save Spare
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
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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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery

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