"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."

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Source : Alexandre Dumas (2016). “My Memoirs (1802 to 1833)”, p.1444, Library of Alexandria

Alexandre Dumas

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“A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.”
“I've been blessed with two beautiful daughters. It is amazing how inadequate I can feel in being able to protect, teach, and take care of them. I'm not talking about a paranoid the-world-is-a-dangerous-place kind of way. I mean when they just give me a simple look or ask me something like "Where do stars comes from, Daddy?" I'm opened up in a way I had not thought possible.”
“We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadnâ€™t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think weâ€™ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.”
“Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.”
“Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.”
“Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?”
“Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.”
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”

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