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This is one of the greatest novels of all time. It’s is a rollercoaster of emotions, offering an enthralling mix of revenge, redemption, and undying hope.
I’ve read The Count of Monte Cristo around seven or eight times now, and I appreciate it more and more the older I get. This will be a book that I will forever return to. It is a literary masterpiece that deserves a spot on every reader’s shelf.
Highlights
He was a young man of between eighteen and twenty, tall, slim, with fine dark eyes and ebony-black hair. His whole demeanour possessed the calm and resolve peculiar to men who have been accustomed from childhood to wrestle with danger.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 461-463 2022-03-29 23:23:58
The captain was hardly dead before he had taken command without asking anyone, and made us lose a day and a half on the island of Elba, instead of returning directly to Marseille.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 9 | Location 500-502 2022-03-29 23:27:13
They always say that joy cannot harm you,
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 620-620 2022-03-29 23:33:58
Napoleon is the Mohammed of the West.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 1311-1311 2022-03-30 23:23:05
My father was, and perhaps still is, a Bonapartist named Noirtier; I am a Royalist, and am called de Villefort.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 54 | Location 1334-1335 2022-03-30 23:25:45
However, should any conspirator fall into your hands, remember that all eyes will be fixed upon you, the more so since it is known that you belong to a family which might perhaps have dealings with such conspirators.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 54 | Location 1340-1342 2022-03-30 23:26:27
The Holy Alliance will cleanse Europe of Napoleon and Villefort will cleanse Marseille of his supporters.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 55 | Location 1357-1358 2022-03-30 23:28:02
As we have seen, Villefort belonged to the nobility of the town and M. Morrel to the plebeian part of it: the former was an extreme Royalist, the latter suspected of harbouring Bonapartist sympathies.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 1489-1490 2022-03-30 23:37:46
From the flash that passed through the young man’s eyes as he spoke these words, Villefort was able to perceive how much violent energy was hidden beneath his mild exterior.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 66 | Location 1569-1570 2022-03-30 23:44:01
But sorrow is not so easily put aside. The stricken man carried it with him like the fatal stamp of which Virgil speaks.1 Villefort went in and closed the door, but when he reached the living-room, his legs too gave way beneath him, he let out a sigh that was more like a sob, and slumped into a chair.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 85 | Location 1904-1907 2022-03-31 23:22:15
Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 87 | Location 1951-1952 2022-03-31 23:26:13
‘So is it true, what our enemies say about us: nothing learned, nothing forgotten? If I had been betrayed as he was, then that might after all be some consolation; but to be surrounded by people whom I have raised to high office, who should consider my safety more precious than their own, because their interests depend on me – people who were nothing before me, and will be nothing after – and to perish miserably through inefficiency and ineptitude!
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 98 | Location 2150-2153 2022-04-01 23:12:39
You people, who hold power, have only what can be bought for money; we, who are waiting to gain power, have what is given out of devotion.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 108 | Location 2322-2323 2022-04-01 23:25:04
Villefort shuddered at the idea of the prisoner cursing him in the darkness and silence, but he had gone too far to retreat. Dantès would have to be broken between the cogs of his ambition.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 116 | Location 2472-2474 2022-04-03 00:05:58
Old Dantès, who had been sustained only by hope, lost hope when the emperor fell. Five months to the day after being separated from his son, and almost at the very hour when Dantès was arrested, he breathed his last in Mercédès’ arms.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 119 | Location 2526-2528 2022-04-03 00:10:48
Its inhabitants were called by the number of the one that they occupied, and the unfortunate young man was no longer called by his first name, Edmond, or his family name, Dantès. He became Number 34.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 130 | Location 2731-2732 2022-04-03 23:19:01
So Dantès prayed to be removed from his dungeon and put in another, even one that was deeper and darker: any change, albeit for the worse, would be a change, and would provide some relief for a few days.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 130 | Location 2740-2742 2022-04-03 23:19:44
He was short in stature, with hair whitened by suffering more than by age, a penetrating eye hidden beneath thick, grizzled brows, and a still-black beard that extended to his chest. The leanness of his face, which was deeply furrowed, and the firm moulding of his features implied a man more accustomed to exercise his spiritual than his physical faculties. This newcomer’s brow was bathed in sweat.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 147 | Location 3026-3028 2022-04-04 21:08:21
There are things that seem so impossible that one instinctively avoids them and doesn’t even consider attempting them.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 151 | Location 3109-3110 2022-04-04 21:14:05
However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 160 | Location 3269-3271 2022-04-04 21:35:17
‘I regret having helped you in your investigation and said what I did to you,’ he remarked. ‘Why is that?’ Dantès asked. ‘Because I have insinuated a feeling into your heart that was not previously there: the desire for revenge.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 167 | Location 3382-3384 2022-04-04 21:41:50
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 167 | Location 3397-3399 2022-04-04 21:42:51
‘You are my son, Dantès!’ the old man cried. ‘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 (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 185 | Location 3750-3752 2022-04-04 22:08:13
‘Do not be deceived: I am suffering less, because I have less strength in me to suffer. At your age, you have faith in life; it is a privilege of youth to believe and to hope. But old men see death more clearly. Here it is! It is coming … it is the end … my life is going … my reason is clouded … Dantès, your hand … Adieu, adieu!’ And rising in one final effort of his whole being, he said: ‘Monte Cristo! Do not forget Monte Cristo!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 190 | Location 3841-3845 2022-04-04 22:59:09
Dantès was on the track that he wished to follow, proceeding towards the end that he wished to attain: his heart was turning to stone in his breast.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 216 | Location 4296-4297 2022-04-04 23:29:41
The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 229 | Location 4525-4525 2022-04-05 23:27:43
‘I am still more afraid of a dead man’s curse than of a living man’s hatred.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 250 | Location 4900-4901 2022-04-06 23:03:50
“If ever you see my Edmond again, tell him that I died with a blessing for him.”
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 256 | Location 5004-5005 2022-04-06 23:10:40
The secret of happiness and misery is between four walls;
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 259 | Location 5069-5070 2022-04-06 23:15:33
‘And Mercédès? They tell me she disappeared?’ ‘Disappeared?’ said Caderousse. ‘Yes, like the sun disappears, to rise more glorious the following day.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 261 | Location 5100-5102 2022-04-06 23:18:32
The man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his face.’ The Englishman gave a hint of a smile.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 269 | Location 5243-5244 2022-04-06 23:27:44
‘Mademoiselle,’ the foreigner said. ‘One day you will receive a letter signed by … Sinbad the Sailor. Do precisely as this letter tells you, however strange its instructions may seem.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 284 | Location 5524-5525 2022-04-07 23:27:14
“My father died because he could not do what I am doing today; but he died with calm and peace of mind, because he knew as he died that I would do it.”
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 294 | Location 5708-5709 2022-04-08 23:04:56
Morrel took the purse and shivered, because he vaguely recalled it as something that had once belonged to him.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 297 | Location 5751-5752 2022-04-08 23:07:45
‘Be happy, noble heart. Be blessed for all the good you have done and will yet do. Let my gratitude remain hidden in the shadows like your good deeds.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 298 | Location 5780-5781 2022-04-08 23:09:24
‘And now,’ said the stranger, ‘farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude … Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 299 | Location 5786-5788 2022-04-08 23:10:07
It was only the pallor that was strange: the man looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and afterwards had been unable to recover the natural rosy complexion of the living.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 313 | Location 6036-6037 2022-04-10 21:15:34
‘And, like the honourable sailor whose name you have taken,’ he asked, changing the subject, ‘do you spend all your time travelling?’ ‘Yes, this is the result of a vow that I made at a time when I did not expect I should be able to accomplish it,’ the stranger said with a smile. ‘I have made a few vows of that sort, and I hope to be able to accomplish them all in due course.’ Though Sinbad had spoken these words with the greatest sang-froid, his eyes gave a glance of peculiar ferocity.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 315 | Location 6084-6088 2022-04-10 21:20:10
Well, it’s the same with hashish: just try taking it for a whole week, and no food in the world will seem to you comparable in fineness to this taste which today you find musty and repellent.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 319 | Location 6153-6154 2022-04-10 21:30:45
‘I say that, when something is beyond my comprehension, I am in the habit of not wasting any more time on it, but of turning to something else.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 327 | Location 6304-6305 2022-04-10 21:47:57
When one is showing a friend round a city that one already knows, one does so with the same coquetry as when showing off a woman who has been one’s mistress.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 330 | Location 6361-6362 2022-04-12 21:26:52
In every country where independence takes the place of liberty, the first need felt by any strong mind and powerful constitution is to possess a weapon which can serve both for attack and defence;
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 338 | Location 6499-6501 2022-04-14 20:30:38
A superior being, wherever he may be, always acquires a following of admirers.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 338 | Location 6508-6508 2022-04-14 20:31:22
‘He looks to me like Lord Ruthwen4 in flesh and blood.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 371 | Location 7098-7099 2022-04-21 21:23:18
indeed! I should fight a duel for any of these things; but in return for a slow, deep, infinite, eternal pain, I should return as nearly as possible a pain equivalent to the one inflicted on me.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 384 | Location 7330-7332 2022-04-21 21:45:39
Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 384 | Location 7335-7335 2022-04-21 21:46:01
On the contrary, he was paying the meal the compliment one would expect from a man who has been condemned for four or five months to suffer Italian cooking (which is among the worst in the world).
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 385 | Location 7347-7348 2022-04-21 21:47:08
‘Punctuality,’ said Monte Cristo, ‘is the politeness of kings, or so I believe one of your sovereigns claimed.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 453 | Location 8585-8586 2022-04-26 23:24:57
He finds satisfaction elsewhere than in the things of this world and does not aspire to any honours, taking only those that can fit on his passport.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 473 | Location 8954-8956 2022-04-27 23:32:16
trees only give us pleasure because they give shade, and shade itself only pleases us because it is full of reveries and visions.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 522 | Location 9847-9848 2022-04-29 23:39:20
I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 522 | Location 9850-9851 2022-04-29 23:39:06
Unless I die, I shall always be what I am.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 553 | Location 10416-10417 2022-05-01 23:19:02
‘Come, come. Enough of poison. Now that my heart is full of it, let us go and find the antidote.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 557 | Location 10485-10486 2022-05-01 23:25:08
‘Those who are born with a silver spoon,’ Emmanuel said, ‘those who have never needed anything, do not understand what happiness is, any more than those who do not know the blessing of a clear sky and who have never entrusted their lives to four planks tossing on a raging sea.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 566 | Location 10651-10653 2022-05-02 23:34:46
‘My father saw this act as a miracle. He believed that our benefactor was someone who had come back from the dead. Oh, Monsieur, it was a touching superstition and, while I did not believe it myself, I certainly had no wish to destroy the belief in his noble heart! How many times did he mutter the name of a dear, dear friend, a friend whom he had lost; and when he was on the point of death and the prospect of eternity might have given his mind some illumination from beyond the grave, this idea, which until then had been no more than a suspicion, became a certainty, and the last words that he spoke before he died were these: “Maximilien, it was Edmond Dantès.”
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 570 | Location 10716-10721 2022-05-02 23:39:10
‘That’s precisely where the art lies: to be a great chemist in the East, you must direct chance. It can be done.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 591 | Location 11105-11106 2022-05-05 23:47:47
Sleep away, my dear Count, sleep away. The Opera was designed for no other purpose.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 607 | Location 11383-11384 2022-05-06 23:52:55
‘Oh, Count,’ Morcerf cried. ‘What a favour you would do me and how I would love you a hundred times more if, thanks to you, I were to remain a bachelor, if only for ten years.’ ‘Nothing is impossible,’ Monte Cristo replied gravely.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 619 | Location 11611-11613 2022-05-07 00:08:58
You have something that Mademoiselle Danglars will never have: 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.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 643 | Location 12041-12043 2022-05-09 23:34:19
‘I have just found out how to rescue a gardener from the dormice who are eating his peaches.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 685 | Location 12807-12808 2022-05-11 23:45:06
will let you make me hateful, but I refuse to allow you to make me ridiculous and, above all, I absolutely forbid you to ruin me.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 721 | Location 13453-13454 2022-05-13 23:44:17
I will let you make me hateful, but I refuse to allow you to make me ridiculous and, above all, I absolutely forbid you to ruin me.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 721 | Location 13453-13454 2022-05-13 23:44:24
A crestfallen capitalist is like a comet: he always warns of some great misfortune to come.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 723 | Location 13490-13491 2022-05-13 23:47:14
So, most ill deeds present themselves to their perpetrators in the specious guise of necessity; then, when the deed has been committed – in a moment of passion, fear or delirium – one realizes that it might have been avoided.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 734 | Location 13684-13686 2022-05-14 23:23:35
‘How typical that is, you proud and self-absorbed creature! This is indeed the man who enjoys taking an axe to the self-esteem of others, but cries out when a needle touches his own.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 747 | Location 13916-13917 2022-05-14 23:38:29
There may have been more handsome men, but there was surely none more significant, if we may be allowed to use the word. Everything about the count meant something and carried some weight; for the habit of positive thought had given to his features, to the expression on his face and to the least of his gestures an incomparable strength and suppleness.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 764 | Location 14215-14218 2022-05-16 23:37:29
‘And have you forgiven her what she made you suffer?’ ‘Her I have forgiven, yes.’ ‘But only her. You still hate those who separated you?’ The countess stood in front of Monte Cristo, still holding part of the bunch of grapes in her hand. ‘Take it,’ she said. ‘I never eat muscat grapes, Madame,’ the count replied, as if the matter had never been discussed between them before.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 771 | Location 14349-14353 2022-05-16 23:47:02
nothing terrifies old people so much as when death leaves their side to strike down another old person.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 776 | Location 14435-14436 2022-05-16 23:52:55
Ghosts only appear to those who ought to see them.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 780 | Location 14512-14513 2022-05-16 23:58:21
A weak one speaks of the weights he can lift, a timorous one of the giants he can confront, the poor of the treasures he possesses and the most humble peasant, on account of his pride, is called Jupiter.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 809 | Location 15031-15033 2022-05-18 23:39:23
Ideas never die, Sire, and, though they may slumber for a time, they wake up stronger than when they fell asleep.” ’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 812 | Location 15085-15086 2022-05-18 23:43:29
“General,” the leader of the assembly said, with dignity, “a single man always has the right to insult fifty: that is the privilege of weakness. However, he is wrong to exercise that right.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 827 | Location 15340-15342 2022-05-19 23:07:26
He was thus more or less established in Parisian society, which is so open to receiving strangers and treating them, not as what they are, but as what they wish to be. In any case, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak the language, more or less; to be acceptably
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 831 | Location 15426-15428 2022-05-19 23:13:39
In any case, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak the language, more or less; to be acceptably turned out; to be a good sport; and to pay cash.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 831 | Location 15427-15428 2022-05-19 23:13:50
When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 871 | Location 16155-16156 2022-05-21 23:22:41
the plant alone persuades me that there are leaves in the world that are not leaves of paper.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 874 | Location 16206-16207 2022-05-21 23:26:08
‘Wonderful! That’s the way to live!’ said Caderousse. ‘A house in town, a house in the country.’ ‘That’s what it means to be rich.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 909 | Location 16830-16831 2022-05-23 23:12:53
However much a man is inured to taking risks, however well prepared he is for danger, the fluttering of his heart and the pricking of his skin will always let him know the vast difference that lies between dream and reality, planning and execution.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 915 | Location 16953-16955 2022-05-23 23:22:08
‘I am not Abbé Busoni, or Lord Wilmore,’ said Monte Cristo. ‘Look more carefully; go back further; look into your earliest memories.’ These words were spoken by the count with such a magnetic vibrancy that the man’s exhausted senses were awakened for one last time.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 930 | Location 17214-17216 2022-05-23 23:38:16
The count had watched every stage of Caderousse’s agony. He realized that this burst of life was the last. He bent over the dying man and, with a look that was both calm and sad, he said, whispering in his ear: ‘I am …’ And his lips, barely parting, let fall a name spoken so low that the count himself seemed to fear the sound of it.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 930 | Location 17222-17225 2022-05-23 23:38:50
At once the blood stopped on his lips and ceased to flow from his wounds. He was dead. ‘One!’ the count said, mysteriously, staring at the corpse already disfigured by its awful death.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 931 | Location 17228-17230 2022-05-23 23:39:13
Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender and open in the heart.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 951 | Location 17607-17608 2022-05-25 23:23:17
Truly generous men are always ready to feel compassion when their enemy’s misfortune exceeds the bounds of their hatred.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 952 | Location 17615-17616 2022-05-25 23:24:01
‘Who are you, Madame?’ the count asked the veiled woman. The stranger looked all around her to make sure that she was quite alone then, bending forward as if she wanted to kneel down and clasping her hands, she said in a desperate voice: ‘Edmond! You must not kill my son!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 978 | Location 18101-18103 2022-05-25 23:54:55
‘Mercédès is alive, Monsieur, and Mercédès remembers, for she alone recognized you when she saw you, and even without seeing you, by your voice, Edmond, by the mere sound of your voice. Since that time she has followed you step by step, she has watched you and been wary of you, because she did not need to wonder whose was the hand that has struck down Monsieur de Morcerf.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 979 | Location 18107-18109 2022-05-25 23:55:27
Well, now: the French have not had vengeance on the traitor, the Spaniards did not shoot the traitor; and Ali, lying in his tomb, left the traitor unpunished; but I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 981 | Location 18153-18155 2022-05-25 23:58:40
Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercédès, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercédès, I must have my revenge!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 982 | Location 18164-18167 2022-05-25 23:59:27
‘No,’ Mercédès said, interrupting him. ‘But I have seen the man I loved preparing to become the murderer of my son!’ She said these words with such overwhelming grief, in such a desperate voice, that when he heard it a sob rose in the count’s throat. The lion was tamed, the avenging angel overcome.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 983 | Location 18184-18186 2022-05-26 00:01:15
‘Senseless!’ he said. ‘The day when I resolved to take my revenge … senseless, not to have torn out my heart!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 985 | Location 18224-18225 2022-05-26 00:04:08
‘What! The structure that was so long in building, which demanded so much anxious toil, has been demolished at a single blow, a single word, a breath of air! What, this “I” that I thought was something; this “I”, of which I was so proud; this “I” that I saw so small in the dungeons of the Château d’If and managed to make so great, will be, tomorrow, a speck of dust!
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 986 | Location 18233-18235 2022-05-26 23:06:15
‘And all this, good Lord, because my heart, which I thought was dead, was only numbed; because it awoke, it beat; because I gave way to the pain of that beating which had been aroused in my breast by the voice of a woman!
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 986 | Location 18242-18244 2022-05-26 23:07:07
Some virtues, when taken to the extreme, become crimes.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 987 | Location 18247-18247 2022-05-26 23:07:33
‘What has happened to you since yesterday evening, Count?’ ‘What happened to Brutus on the eve of the Battle of Philippi:1 I have seen a ghost.’ ‘And this ghost?’ ‘This ghost, Morrel, told me that I had lived long enough.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 992 | Location 18338-18341 2022-05-26 23:14:27
‘Fernand!’ Monte Cristo cried. ‘Of my hundred names, I shall need to tell you only one to strike you down. But you can already guess that name, can’t you? Or, rather, you can recall it. For in spite of all my woes, in spite of all my tortures, I can now show you a face rejuvenated by the joy of revenge, a face that you must have seen often in your dreams since your marriage … your marriage to my fiancée, Mercédès!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1011 | Location 18687-18690 2022-05-26 23:37:46
‘I love passionately, I love madly, I love like a man who would give his life’s blood to spare her a tear, I love Valentine de Villefort who is being murdered at this moment, do you understand? I love her and I beg God and you to tell me how I can save her.’ Monte Cristo gave a savage cry which can only be imagined by those who have heard the roar of a wounded lion. ‘Wretch!’ he cried, wringing his hands in his turn. ‘Wretch! You love Valentine! You love that daughter of an accursed race!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1025 | Location 18945-18949 2022-05-27 23:42:16
‘My God!’ said Morrel. ‘You terrify me, Count, with your lack of emotion. Have you some remedy for death? Are you more than a man? Are you an angel? A god?’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1026 | Location 18968-18969 2022-05-27 23:43:44
All men are scoundrels and I am happy to be able to do more than hate them: now I despise them.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1051 | Location 19417-19418 2022-05-29 23:09:30
The whole world is wicked, Madame, so let us prove it and strike down the wicked man!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1076 | Location 19879-19880 2022-05-31 23:32:11
Alas, alas, alas! The whole world is wicked, Madame, so let us prove it and strike down the wicked man!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1076 | Location 19879-19880 2022-05-31 23:32:21
‘Because I am the man who has already saved your father’s life, one day when he wanted to kill himself as you do today; because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister and the Pharaon to old Morrel; because I am Edmond Dantès, who dandled you on his knees when you were a child!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1122 | Location 20697-20699 2022-06-03 23:39:14
Often, in her youth, she had herself spoken of poverty, but that is not the same thing: ‘need’ and ‘necessity’ are synonyms, but there is a world of difference between them.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1137 | Location 20969-20970 2022-06-04 20:46:39
‘Alas! How can I give those two innocent people back the happiness I have taken away from them? God will help me.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1143 | Location 21077-21078 2022-06-04 21:03:58
‘Can you be a coward?’ Villefort cried, in a contemptuous voice. ‘I have indeed always noticed that poisoners are cowards. But are you a coward, who had enough frightful courage to watch two old people and a girl die in front of you, when you had killed them?
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1157 | Location 21335-21337 2022-06-04 23:23:44
‘Let anyone now deny that drama is only in art and not in nature!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1173 | Location 21612-21613 2022-06-08 23:35:44
There are some situations which men instinctively comprehend but are unable to comment on intellectually. In such cases, the greatest poet is the one who emits the most powerful and the most natural cry.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1173 | Location 21629-21630 2022-06-08 23:37:09
Monte Cristo paled at this terrible spectacle. He realized that he had exceeded the limits of vengeance, he realized that he could no longer say: ‘God is for me and with me.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1180 | Location 21747-21748 2022-06-08 23:43:53
‘Maximilien,’ the count said, ‘the friends whom we have lost do not rest in the earth, they are buried in our hearts, and that is how God wanted it, so that we should always be in their company.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1186 | Location 21856-21857 2022-06-08 23:49:34
‘Alas,’ said Monte Cristo, ‘our poor species can pride itself on the fact that every man thinks himself unhappier than another unfortunate, weeping and moaning beside him.’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1204 | Location 22175-22177 2022-06-09 23:48:36
Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1212 | Location 22332-22332 2022-06-09 23:57:48
‘I am the one whom you sold, betrayed and dishonoured. I am the one whose fiancée you prostituted. I am the one on whom you trampled in order to attain a fortune. I am the one whose father you condemned to starvation, and the one who condemned you to starvation, but who none the less forgives you, because he himself needs forgiveness. I am Edmond Dantès!’
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1228 | Location 22617-22619 2022-06-10 23:31:49
there is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely the comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only someone who has suffered the deepest misfortune is capable of experiencing the heights of felicity. Maximilien, you must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1241 | Location 22857-22860 2022-06-10 23:45:12
all human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘wait’ and ‘hope’!
<The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)>(Dumas, Alexandre) Your Highlight on page 1242 | Location 22861-22862 2022-06-10 23:45:27