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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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Great artists have no country.
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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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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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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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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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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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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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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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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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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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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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