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[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
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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Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!
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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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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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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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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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The fumes of wine fermented in my head it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
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