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#1

“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.

"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#2

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: life, memory, pain, pleasure

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#3

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#4

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: aspiration, self-awareness, self-improvement

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#5

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#6

“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: books, life, men

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#7

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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#8

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: book-the-count-of-monte-cristo

2849 likes

#9

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

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#10

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: love, women, worship

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#11

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: life, pain

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#12

“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, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering

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#13

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: escape, prison, prison-escape

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#14

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: writing

505 likes

#15

“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#16

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#17

“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#18

“If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#19

“I am a Count, Not a Saint.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: nobility

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#20

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: fool, foolishness, learn, lot

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#21

“Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#22

“Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#23

“...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#24

“I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: forgetting, joy, reunion

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#25

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: loneliness, people, scared, world

4257 likes

#26

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: friends, friendship

2389 likes

#27

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: heaviness-of-time, silence

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#28

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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#29

“We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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#30

“Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

tags: future, look-ahead, men, steinbeck

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