Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGreat is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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