"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, ...

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.
~ Alexandre Dumas ~












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