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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.

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
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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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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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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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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.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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