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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
Author
Novelist
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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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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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