I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is only the dead who do not return.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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