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lay the village of Les Catalans,
would have given a glass of his own blood
A curse on those who fear wine: it’s because they have evil thoughts and they are afraid that wine will loosen their tongues.’
they are men who wear crowns, nothing
His oval face had lengthened and his once merry lips had adopted a fixed, firm line that spoke of stern resolve. His eyebrows arched under a single, pensive line and his eyes themselves were imprinted with deep sadness, behind which from time to time
‘In that case,’ Franz exclaimed, ‘it’s hashish! Yes, I do know it, at least by name.
impenetrable as futurity.
When one is showing a friend round a city that one already knows, one does so with the same coquetry as when showing off a woman who has been one’s mistress.
‘The better is the enemy of the good.’
‘It is precisely to punish them that we tolerate duelling.
still carried along by the line of traffic,
They're cruising Maple Ave!
Grisier, Cooks and Charles Leboucher.
‘Now that,’ said the count, ‘is less true than your philosophy. But, then, it’s only faith, after all.’ ‘
There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.
I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.
it seemed more appropriate to the other sex. She spoke two or three languages, had an innate talent for drawing, wrote verse and composed
I do believe that disgust makes me sicker than hatred.’
Men show their best side to an officer like you, who is five feet six inches tall, has a long moustache and carries a broad sabre, but they think they can crush a poor weeping girl with impunity.
it is they who truly have the wealth nowadays.
I don’t know if it is not more odious to me than the sound of your voice.
ceased to live as man and wife,
Perhaps my heart was weaker than that of others and I suffered more than they would in my place, that’s all.
God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation on earth; but anyone who has the will to fight will not lose precious time, but immediately strike back at that Fate which has dealt a blow.
But you are failing me and my life is lost.
throats cut like lambs, defended only by our sighs.
emetic.’
Caderousse’s plans terrified Andrea even more than his ideas: the ideas were only the seed, the plan was the full fruit.
unknown pleasures in the struggle against nature, which is God, and against the world – which is, near enough, the Devil.
But it is better for her to die of grief than of shame.
always stupid. But with me, it is a different matter: I am sure of winning.’
He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.’
Every night for ten years, I had the same dream.
What I have loved most after you, Mercédès, is myself, that is to say my dignity, that is to say the strength that made me superior to other men.
What is death? One step further into calm and two perhaps into silence.
Well, if I had ten Janinas in my family, I should consider myself under only one obligation, and that would be to fight ten duels.
Ever since I can remember, no one has loved me – too bad! And this has naturally led me to love nobody – so much the better! There you have my credo.’
Ohio.
A self-conscious stylist
at war with society all his life,
seemed to me a living proof, a proof constantly renewed, that I was not some hideous exception!
man of bronze
Come, do you know what the Count of Monte Cristo can do? Do you know that he commands many powers on earth?
The generation after our own is very precocious, old boy.’
gave Benedetto the sort of look he might have given the head of Medusa.
wondering for the first time whether he had had the right to do what he had done.
There is no one in the world your equal; there is nothing that resembles you.
One day, when our world has lived another thousand years, when people have mastered all the destructive forces of nature and harnessed them to the general good of mankind, and when, as you just said, men have learnt the secrets of death, then death will be as sweet and voluptuous as sleep in a lover’s arms.
you must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.
‘wait’ and ‘hope
