Quote by Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are gua

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. – Alexandre Dumas

Other quotes by Alexandre Dumas

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. – Alexandre Dumas

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Anger
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. – Alexandre Dumas

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Failure
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas

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alone
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Fairy Tales
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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. – George Santayana

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Fairy Tales

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale. – Ralph Ellison

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Fairy Tales

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. – Marie Curie

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Fairy Tales

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. – Susanne K. Langer

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Fairy Tales

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As a Christian, I think its really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me. – Leven Rambin

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I dont know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up. – Russell Bishop

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parenting