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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Novelist
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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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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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 came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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