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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
Glorious
Humorous
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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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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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... 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 lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
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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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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.
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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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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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I have come too late into a world too old.
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
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