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d. 1895 France
Alexandre Dumas (July 27, 1824 – November 27, 1895) was a popular French novelist and playwright, best known for his novel and play, La Dame aux camélias. The word fils (son) is usually added to his name to distinguish him from his father, Alexandre Dumas, père.
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The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to carry it—sometimes three.
We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.
Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867)
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.
Business? It's quite simple: it's other people's money.
Les affaires, c'est bien simple, c'est l'argent des autres.
Woman was according to the Bible the last thing God made and His weariness could be felt.
Men and women go to the theatre only to hear of love, and to take part in the pains or in the joys that it has caused. All the other interests of humanity remain at the door.
It is possible to become a painter, a sculptor, or a musician by study, but not a dramatic poet; a man is so either at once or never, as he is blonde or brown, and cannot help it.
Preface to Le Père Prodigue (1859)
That world begins where the lawful wife finishes; it finishes where the venal wife begins. It is divided from the world of honest women by the public scandal it provokes; it is divided from the world of courtesans by money.
Preface to Le Demi-Monde (1855)
In the interest of the dictionaries of the future let me lay down the principle that the Demi-Monde, contrary to the common belief and in spite of what is printed, does not represent the ruck of courtesans, but the class of women that have lost caste.
Preface to Le Demi-Monde (1855)
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