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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
Alexandre Dumas
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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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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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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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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor
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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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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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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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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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