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
ALEXANDRE DUMASAll for one, one for all, that is our device.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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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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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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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 am a count, not a saint.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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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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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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