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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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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Christianity
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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone we can no longer control it.
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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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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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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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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
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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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In love matters keep your pen from paper.
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I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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The return makes one love the farewell.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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Life is a sleep, love is a dream and you have lived if you have loved.
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The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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