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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
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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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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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