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Alfred de Musset
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Alfred de Musset
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: December 11
Died: 1857
Died: May 2
Chess Composer
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Paris
France
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Alfred De Musset
Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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More quotes by 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
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
Alfred de Musset
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
Alfred de Musset
Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
Alfred de Musset
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Alfred de Musset
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
Alfred de Musset
Great artists have no country.
Alfred de Musset
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
Alfred de Musset
In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
Alfred de Musset
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
Alfred de Musset
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred de Musset
Perfection does not exist to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
Alfred de Musset
I have come too late into a world too old.
Alfred de Musset
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
Alfred de Musset
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
Alfred de Musset
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
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
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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
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
