Alfred de Musset Quotes
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.
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One must not trifle with love.
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives.
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
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Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
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Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
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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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You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep.
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Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!
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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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I have come too late into a world too old.
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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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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them.
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I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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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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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
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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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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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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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The only truth is love beyond reason.