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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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Alexandre Dumas |
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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joy
love
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Alexandre Dumas |
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We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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df9b019
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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f0968f0
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
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wicked
vengeance
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Alexandre Dumas |
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a6f2d3a
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I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because when you saw me spitting blood you took my hand; because you wept; because you are the only human being who has ever pitied me. I am going to say a mad thing to you: I once had a little dog who looked at me with a sad look when I coughed; that is the only creature I ever loved. When he died I cried more than when my mother died. It is true t..
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men
pity
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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bbef7bb
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Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.
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love
charm
childlikeness
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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9d0a214
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My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it's by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don't be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you've just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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837dd63
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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 |
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0962738
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In general, people only ask for advice 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 |
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2a4c65e
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
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shipwreck
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Alexandre Dumas |
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0889f99
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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religion
god
judge
justice
the-count-of-monte-cristo
father
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die bef..
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man
nature
death
god
fellowship
the-count-of-monte-cristo
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Alexandre Dumas |
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you. -Maximilien Morrel
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Alexandre Dumas |
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One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
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Alexandre Dumas |
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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d2c68b3
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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religion
martyrs
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Alexandre Dumas |
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c2acf8c
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We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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b1f4742
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When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you." "That's exactly what worries me," replied Dantes. "I don't 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 |
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People in general," he said, "only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life
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Alexandre Dumas |
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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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Alexandre Dumas |
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We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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God is always the last resource.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
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sympathy
sorrow
relationship
the-count-of-monte-cristo
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Alexandre Dumas |
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da31724
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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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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Alexandre Dumas |
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Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn't keep you warm at night, life's too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side
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Alexandre Dumas |
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b6e1bfd
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Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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Alexandre Dumas |
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75de1e4
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Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Alexandre Dumas |