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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
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Paris
France
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Alfred De Musset
Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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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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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
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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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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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