Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt 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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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Know 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.
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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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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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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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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?
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