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Life is a sleep, love is a dream and you have lived if you have loved.
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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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart
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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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Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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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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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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Few persons enjoy real liberty we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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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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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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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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The only truth is love beyond reason.
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life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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