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Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, ...more

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Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , tha...more

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My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.

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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

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we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

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Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.

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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of ou...more

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After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for th...more

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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

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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...more

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The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

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Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

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Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he se...more

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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.