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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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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In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
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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 return makes one love the farewell.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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