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I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.


Marlene Dumas

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ALEXANDRE DUMAS Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword...
D'Artagnan: The mighty ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Be kind, aim for my heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. No...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet;...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, alway...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy th...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly hear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS