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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHere is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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God is always the last resource.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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