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“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.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
#Children Quotes
#Flower Quotes
#Butterfly Quotes
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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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Alexandre Dumas-fils
#Angel Quotes
#Wings Quotes
#Esteem Quotes
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“Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
#Memories Quotes
#Fate Quotes
#Paradise Quotes
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“The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
#Marriage Quotes
#Wedding Quotes
#Two Quotes
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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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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.25, Penguin
#Children Quotes
#Eye Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
#Long Quotes
#Matter Quotes
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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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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.173, Penguin
#Sorrow Quotes
#Wicked Quotes
#Done Quotes
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“We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.97, Penguin
#Heart Quotes
#Penalties Quotes
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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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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.93, Penguin
#Self Esteem Quotes
#Unfaithful Quotes
#Sometimes Quotes
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“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin
#Childhood Quotes
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“Everything was believed except the truth.”
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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.20, Penguin
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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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Alexandre Dumas-fils
Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.24, Penguin
#Pride Quotes
#Vanity Quotes
#Evil Quotes
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