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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
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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
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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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?
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
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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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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.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
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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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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!
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked very witty or very stupid, but something.
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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