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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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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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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Pain, thou art not an evil
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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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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