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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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
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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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I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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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.
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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine do not become intoxicated.
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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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Great artists have no country.
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
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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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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked very witty or very stupid, but something.
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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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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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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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