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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.
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
Alfred De Musset
Louis Charles Alfred Musset
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
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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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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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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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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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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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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 deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them disappear in them
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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 only truth is love beyond reason.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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