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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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
Romanticism
Adjectives
Abuse
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
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I have come too late into a world too old.
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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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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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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them disappear in them
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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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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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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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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