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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
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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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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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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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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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I have come too late into a world too old.
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life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
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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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... 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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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer
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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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Great artists have no country.
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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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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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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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