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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
Insane
Profound
Painful
Wisdom
Pain
Also
Exception
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Humorous
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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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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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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.
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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 can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them disappear in them
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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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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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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.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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