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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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
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Paris
France
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Alfred De Musset
Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
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