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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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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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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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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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Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
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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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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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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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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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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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