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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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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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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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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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Wait and hope!
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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