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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
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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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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