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“With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Kissing #World
“Memory is what makes us young or old.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Memories #Young
“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!”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Men #Ideas #Silence
“Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Cigar #Feels
“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Abuse #Adjectives #Romanticism
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Wisdom #Pain #Humorous
“The only truth is love beyond reason.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Love Is #Truth Is #Reason
“One must not trifle with love”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Love #Trifles
“Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Suffering #May #Illusion
“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.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Perfection #Triumph #Doe
“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Memorable #Two #Poetry
“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Sadness #Sorrow #Remember
“The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Heart #Silence #Mouths
“In love matters; keep your pen from paper.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Paper #Letters #Matter
“Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Real #Ideas #Liberty
“It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Promise #Forget #Easy
“The only true language in the world is a kiss.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Love #Kissing #World
“In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Dream #Regret
“A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Memories #Earth #Happy Memories
“life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Dream #Sleep #Love Is
“The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Heart #Love Is #Shrines
“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 wouldnâ€™t know it by heart”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Heart #Love Is #Play
“Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Order #Sin #Priests
“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”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Art #Blood #Water
“I have come too late into a world too old.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Too Late #World
“Look at the sun! Itâ€™s dry, itâ€™s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And Iâ€™ll give it blood!”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Blood #Giving #Dry
“There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity â€“ words like that are the silver scales of the Tempterâ€™s flaming wings”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Angel #Wings #Humanity
“I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Stars #Down And #Breathe
“Youâ€™re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youâ€™re alone, so you think itâ€™s a vast, magnificent panorama. You havenâ€™t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of Godâ€™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”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Believe #Ocean #Reflection
“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.”
-- Alfred de Musset

#Space #Brain #Defense

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