In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOrder is the key to all problems.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHappiness is egotistical.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPhilosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMASFor there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMASThrough 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLove is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMASKnow 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTruly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
ALEXANDRE DUMASUnfortunates, 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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