Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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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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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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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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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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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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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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