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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASEveryone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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