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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
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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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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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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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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.
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The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
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life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
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... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
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