Alexandre Dumas-fils Quotes

• Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Children, Flower, Butterfly

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• Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

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  Memories, Fate, Paradise

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• Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

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  Angel, Wings, Esteem

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• No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me

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  Long, Matter

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• The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Two

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• Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

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  Pride, Vanity, True Evil

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin

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• The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

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  Children, Eye, Men

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.25, Penguin

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• Everything was believed except the truth.

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  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.20, Penguin

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• One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.

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  Childhood

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin

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• Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

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  Self Esteem, Unfaithful, Sometimes

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.93, Penguin

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• The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

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  Men, Reason Why, Worst

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• We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

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  Heart, Penalties

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.97, Penguin

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• We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.

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  Sorrow, Wicked, Done

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.173, Penguin

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