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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
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Alfred de Musset
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: December 11
Died: 1857
Died: May 2
Chess Composer
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Paris
France
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
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Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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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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Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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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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Life is a sleep, love is a dream and you have lived if you have loved.
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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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Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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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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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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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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... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
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