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 DUMASOften we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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It 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.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Know 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.
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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.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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