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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
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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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
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
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Forever Life Remember Storm Willing
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
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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Life Live Love Novel People Story
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
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Beautiful History Offspring Rape

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