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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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Famous Alexandre Dumas Quotes

“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.”

Life Pain Suffering Challenges Strength Persistence Endurance Anguish

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.”

Love Life Friends Future Happy Life

Book:The Count Of Monte Cristo / Le Comte De Monte Cristo: English French Parallel Text Edition

Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo / Le Comte De Monte Cristo: English French Parallel Text Edition

“Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.”

Life Desire

Book:The Lady of the Camellias

Source: The Lady of the Camellias

“But madame, does mankind ever lose anything? The arts change about and make a tour of the world; things take a different name, and the vulgar do not follow them- that is all; but there is always the same result.”

People Life Art Humanity

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“God wants man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preseve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.”

Life God Existence The Count Of Monte Cristo

Book:The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”

Life Faith Strength Patience Endurance Storms Yielding

Book:Twenty Years After

Source: Twenty Years After

“Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.”

Life Solitude

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.”

Life Nature Beauty Live Endurance Natural Beauty Natural Wonders

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“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.”

Knows Men World Love Life Humans Two States Feelings Order Felt Waiting Know How This World Despair Capable Ultimate Bliss Comparison Unhappiness Human Wisdom

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

Love Life Together Spiritual Doors Love You Pure Former Latter Suspicion Exit Pure Love Eternal Love Former Love

Author:Alexandre Dumas