Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes

#1. Everything was believed except the truth.

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#2. The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

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#3. No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

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#4. One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

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#5. Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.

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#6. Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

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#7. We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.

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#8. Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

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#9. Your father embraced me once more. I felt two grateful tears on my forehead, like the baptism of my past faults, and at the moment when I consented to give myself up to another man I glowed with pride at the thought of what I was redeeming by this new fault.

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#10. Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.

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#11. The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

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#12. Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

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#13. Her love will prove fatal to any man who dares to love her.

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#14. God almost always opens two ways which lead thither, the ways of sorrow and of love.

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#15. The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

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#16. The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

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#17. We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

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#18. Love gives one a kind of goodness.

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#19. Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

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#20. Do not let us despise the woman who is neither mother, sister, maid, nor wife

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#21. How one realizes the shortness of life by the rapidity of sensations! I have only known Marguerite for two days, she has only been my mistress since yesterday, and she has already so completely absorbed my thoughts, my heart, and my life.

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#22. Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.

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