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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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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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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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