Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOnly a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
ALEXANDRE DUMASKnow 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAre 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPain, thou art not an evil.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBe kind. Aim for my heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYour bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt 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 DUMASWoman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious 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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