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I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.


Marlene Dumas

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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.
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