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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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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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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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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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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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