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
ALEXANDRE DUMASAre 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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 do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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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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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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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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