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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.

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
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Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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