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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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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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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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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The return makes one love the farewell.
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Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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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
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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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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.
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