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Alexandre Dumas, a renowned French writer, was born on July 24, 1802, and died on December 5, 1870. He is famous for his historical and adventure novels, with notable works including 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Count of Monte Cristo'.

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“It is a kind of dizzying comfort to contemplate the open abyss when, at the bottom of that abyss, lies nothingness.”

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Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Dantès n'avait point changé de place. Une main de fer semblait l'avoir cloué à l'endroit où la veille il s'était arrêté: seulement son oeil profond se cachait sous une enflure causée par la vapeur humide de ses larmes. Il était immobile et regardait la terre.”

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Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“I have lost everything that could make me love life and now death smiles at me like a nursemaid to the child she will rock to sleep.”

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Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.”

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Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercédès, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercédès, I must have my revenge!”

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“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”

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“His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!”

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“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

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“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —”

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Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”

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Author:Alexandre Dumas