Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Alfred de Musset
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
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
Kind
Corruption
Plant
Magic
Blood
Motherland
Water
Fertilizer
Art
Ills
Sometimes
Waters
Needs
Cures
More quotes by Alfred de Musset
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
Alfred de Musset
Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
Alfred de Musset
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
Alfred de Musset
Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
Alfred de Musset
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
Alfred de Musset
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
Alfred de Musset
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
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.
Alfred de Musset
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
Alfred de Musset
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
Alfred de Musset
The fumes of wine fermented in my head it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.
Alfred de Musset
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
Alfred de Musset
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
Alfred de Musset
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.
Alfred de Musset
The return makes one love the farewell.
Alfred de Musset
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!
Alfred de Musset
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
Alfred de Musset
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
Alfred de Musset
