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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
Alfred de Musset
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Alfred de Musset
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: December 11
Died: 1857
Died: May 2
Chess Composer
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Paris
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
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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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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
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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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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked very witty or very stupid, but something.
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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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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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Great artists have no country.
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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