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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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 tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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