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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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
Librarian
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Paris
France
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Alfred De Musset
Louis Charles Alfred Musset
Alfred de Musset-Pathay
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
Humorous
Insane
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Wisdom
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Exception
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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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.
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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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
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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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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.
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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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... 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.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
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