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Your life story is a novel and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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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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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains he who sees others die loses.
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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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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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You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
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...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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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 are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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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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