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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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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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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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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.
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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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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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Great artists have no country.
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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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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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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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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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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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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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I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
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