It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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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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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Wait and hope!
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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