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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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