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Alexandre Dumas

French writer and dramatist

1802–1870

18 quotes, most often on Love, Education and Life & Death.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Five, Chapter 117In context
- Happiness
- Life & Death
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 5In context
- Happiness

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