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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Alexandre Dumas

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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Black Cloud Horizon Mindset See Sky Weakness Yourself
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
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
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
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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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Book Myself Paper Sword

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

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