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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.
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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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.
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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Perfection does not exist to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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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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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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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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