Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe’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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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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