Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

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Am avut totuÈ™i È™i o companie mai pl?cut?, a p?s?rilor alungate de frigul din munÈ›i È™i câmpii È™i care au venit s?-È™i caute hrana pe lâng? locuinÈ›ele oamenilor, duÈ™manii lor, aÈ™ezându-se în familii sau colonii pe balconul meu, unde le pun mâncare È™i ap?: dar cred c? dup? ce vremea se va înc?lzi, ele m? vor p?r?si pentru totdeauna.

V-am È›inut în braÈ›ele mele ca s? v? cruÈ› de furia puhoaielor, aÈ›i simÈ›it oare c? v-am strâns la piept? Nu. În mine nu mai d?inuie decât sufletul, È™i toat? f?ptura mea s-a cur??at de p?cate în focul mistuitor al dragostei mele.

R?nile morale au particularitatea c? se ascund, dar nu se închid; totdeauna dureroase, totdeauna gata s? sângereze când le atingi, ele r?mân vii È™i deschise în inim?.

Ne savez-vous point que vous êtes mon soleil pendant le jour et mon étoile pendant la nuit ? En vérité je me croyais dans l'obscurité la plus profonde, lorsque vous avez paru tout à l'heure et avez soudain tout éclairé.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

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.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?