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ALEXANDRE DUMASAre 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I am a count, not a saint.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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