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“If you refuse me, if you ask someone else to do what I have the right to offer you, then I shall say that it was cruel of you to refuse to offer a life to your mother, from a man whose father was driven to starvation, despair and death by your father.”

“Those two living statuses whose hearts were beating so rapidly despite the marble calm of their faces, separated from one another by the whole length of the room, momentarily forgot themselves; or, rather, momentarily forgot everyone else in their silent contemplation of one another.”

“You know very well that it will never be I who will leave you. It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.”

“Only Teresa could command this impetuous character with a word, a look or a gesture. He bent beneath the hand of a woman, yet would have stiffen to breaking point beneath that of any man.”

“My true treasure, my friend, is not the one that awaits me under the dark rocks of Monte Cristo, but your presence, and the time that we spend together for five or six hours a day.”

“‘Answer me once more: have you truly made up your mind?’
‘I love Edmont Dantès.’ The young woman said coldly, ‘and no one will be my husband, except Edmont, and I will love him forever as long as I live.’
‘But suppose he’s dead?’
‘If he’s dead, I shall die.’”