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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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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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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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