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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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Life is a sleep, love is a dream and you have lived if you have loved.
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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them disappear in them
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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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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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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