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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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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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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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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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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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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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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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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