That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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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.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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