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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYour life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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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
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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.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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