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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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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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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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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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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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