Приятелите, които сме загубили не почиват в земята, те са погребани в сърцата ни, по божия воля, за да ни придружават навред. Аз имам двама близки, които ме придружават така: единият е този, комуто дъ...
There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
Pain, thou art not an evil
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
He who has a partner has a master.
Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence...it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the la...
A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does...
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, r...
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of tho...
Pero soy de los que creen que en las cosas pequeñas está todo. El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga el pensamiento; el ojo es solo un punto, y abarca leguas.