Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYouth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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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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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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