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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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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

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Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your...more

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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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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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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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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

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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