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 DUMASFor all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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