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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Alexandre Dumas

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
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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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
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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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
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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Book Myself Paper Sword
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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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
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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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

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