Hannah Segui

“an indefinable charm which is to a woman what its scent is to a flower and its flavour to a fruit; for it is not enough for a flower to be beautiful or for a fruit to be fine-looking.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo