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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

Alexandre Dumas

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
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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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
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.
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Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose
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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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
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
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Awkward Custom Fashion Future Law
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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God Himself Kill Life Live Man
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Laughter Myself Please Privilege
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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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
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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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

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