Alfred de Musset Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.”
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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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“Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.”
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“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
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“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
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“Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.”
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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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“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
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“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”
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“The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.”
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“In love matters; keep your pen from paper.”
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“Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.”
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“It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!”
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“The only true language in the world is a kiss.”
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“In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.”
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“A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.”
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“life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream”
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“The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine”
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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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“Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest”
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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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“I have come too late into a world too old.”
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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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“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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“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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“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