I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMASKnow you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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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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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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