Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Wait and hope!
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas 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.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas God is always the last resource.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre DumasAlexandre Dumas And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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