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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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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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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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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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