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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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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Disgrace
Discovery
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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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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If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.
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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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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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Great artists have no country.
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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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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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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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 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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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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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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One must not trifle with love
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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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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