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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Blood
Motherland
Water
Fertilizer
Art
Ills
Sometimes
Waters
Needs
Cures
Kind
Corruption
Plant
Magic

More quotes by Alfred de Musset

Image
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Memory is what makes us young or old.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Great artists have no country.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
Alfred de Musset
Image
The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
Alfred de Musset
Image
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
Alfred de Musset
Image
The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
Alfred de Musset
Image
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
Image
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
Alfred de Musset
Image
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
Alfred de Musset
Image
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Image
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.
Alfred de Musset
Image
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
Image
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
Alfred de Musset
Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.
Alfred de Musset
Image
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