So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMASPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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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.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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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.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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