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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

Alexandre Dumas

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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Book Myself Paper Sword
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
In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Future God King Man Present Woman World
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Children Education Intelligence Man Stupidity
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
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 wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

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