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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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I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by drag...more

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.

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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

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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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The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as...more

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Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate th...more

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I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must ...more

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Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of ...more

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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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You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, a...more