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I have come too late into a world too old.
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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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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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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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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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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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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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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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 only truth is love beyond reason.
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
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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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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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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
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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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