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The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
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Alexandre Dumas fils
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
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Alexandre Dumas
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All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Alexandre Dumas
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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Alexandre Dumas
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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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Alexandre Dumas
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
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Dumas Malone (Jefferson the Virginian)
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I donβt think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. 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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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Alexandre Dumas
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
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Stephen King (Duma Key)
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Alexandre Dumas (Queen Margot)
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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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All for one and one for all.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.
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Stephen King (Duma Key)
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
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Alexandre Dumas
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
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Alexandre Dumas
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
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Alexandre Dumas
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, V1 (The Count of Monte Cristo, part 1 of 2))
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Black Tulip)
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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Alexandre Dumas
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"
"Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced β from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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What Iβve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. Youβve broken it with a word, so I must die.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.
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Stephen King (Duma Key)
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.
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Alexandre Dumas fils (La dame aux camΓ©lias)
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Brooke Dumas. I'm Remington.
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Katy Evans (Real (Real, #1))
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And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
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Stephen King (Duma Key)
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Man in the Iron Mask)
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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Alexandre Dumas (Three Musketeers (Boys' & Girls' Library))
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DβArtagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, heβll be his usual charming self by morning.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Alexandre Dumas
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No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
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Alexandre Dumas fils (Camille)
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.
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Alexandre Dumas
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Be kind, aim for my heart.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas β no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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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Alexandre Dumas
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Haste is a poor counselor
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Everything was believed except the truth.
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Alexandre Dumas fils (La Dame aux CamΓ©lias)
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A solidΓ£o nΓ£o Γ© viver sΓ³, a solidΓ£o Γ© nΓ£o sermos capazes de fazer companhia a alguΓ©m ou a alguma coisa que estΓ‘ dentro de nΓ³s, a solidΓ£o nΓ£o Γ© uma Γ‘rvore no meio duma planΓcie onde sΓ³ ela esteja, Γ© a distΓ’ncia entre a seiva profunda e a casca, entre a folha e a raiz.
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JosΓ© Saramago (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis)
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Alexandre Dumas
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.
"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Pain, thou art not an evil
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang⦠!
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Art should be a place of hope.
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Stephen King (Duma Key)
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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I am a Count, Not a Saint.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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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. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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Alexandre Dumas
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Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?"
"Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice.
"In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happinessβ¦ Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words β wait and hope.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers)
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.
In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
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Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)