Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhen 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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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Through 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.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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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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Wait and hope!
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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