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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

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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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Always
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Like
Somethings
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Grief

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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues? Maximilien asked. Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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