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.
("The Count of Monte Cristo")
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.Alexandre Dumas
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The man of genius does not steal, he conquers.
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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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