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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Alexandre Dumas

Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
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
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
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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Intoxicate Mindset Please Poet Woman
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
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Appearance Future Horizon Mindset Promise Way Weakness
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Came Condition Fight Myself
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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