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, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
Alexandre DumasWe are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Alexandre DumasPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre DumasYet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
Alexandre Dumas