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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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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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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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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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 air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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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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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.
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