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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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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them disappear in them
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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Life is a sleep, love is a dream and you have lived if you have loved.
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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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The return makes one love the farewell.
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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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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
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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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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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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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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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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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Perfection does not exist to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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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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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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