You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI 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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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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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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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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 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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