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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
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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Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
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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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I have come too late into a world too old.
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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Great artists have no country.
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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
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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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