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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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Exception
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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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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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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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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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The return makes one love the farewell.
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The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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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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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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