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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

Alexandre Dumas

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
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
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
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Death Hold Life Myself
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Fortune Hang Life Myself
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Advice Blame General Order People Rule
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

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