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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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