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Chess Composer Inspirational Quotes (722)

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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
Alfred de Musset
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A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
Alfred de Musset
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
Alfred de Musset
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
Alfred de Musset
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
Alfred de Musset
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
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The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.
Alfred de Musset
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
Alfred de Musset
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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
Alfred de Musset
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The fumes of wine fermented in my head it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.
Alfred de Musset
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.
Alfred de Musset
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Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
Alfred de Musset
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[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
Alfred de Musset
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred de Musset
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
Alfred de Musset
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
Alfred de Musset
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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
Alfred de Musset
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
Alfred de Musset
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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone we can no longer control it.
Alfred de Musset
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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
Alfred de Musset
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
Alfred de Musset
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Alfred de Musset
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
Alfred de Musset
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
Alfred de Musset
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