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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

Alexandre Dumas

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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Intoxicate Mindset Please Poet Woman
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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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
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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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
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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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Future God King Man Present Woman World
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Exit Love Suspicious Togetherness
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
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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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
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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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

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