It 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 DUMASWe’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
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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