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“You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
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