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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
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Alfred de Musset
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: December 11
Died: 1857
Died: May 2
Chess Composer
Dramatist
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Paris
France
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Alfred De Musset
Louis Charles Alfred Musset
Alfred de Musset-Pathay
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
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More quotes by Alfred de Musset
Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
Alfred de Musset
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
Alfred de Musset
The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
Alfred de Musset
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
Alfred de Musset
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
Alfred de Musset
Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
Alfred de Musset
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
Alfred de Musset
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
Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
Alfred de Musset
One must not trifle with love
Alfred de Musset
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
Alfred de Musset
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
Alfred de Musset
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them disappear in them
Alfred de Musset
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
Alfred de Musset
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset
Memory is what makes us young or old.
Alfred de Musset
In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
Alfred de Musset
Great artists have no country.
Alfred de Musset
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
