"One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because……" — Alexandre Dumas
"One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it."
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181 Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
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- The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as…
- Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to…
- Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
- Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
- How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
- If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
- It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost…
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