Alfred de Musset Quotes
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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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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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The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
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Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
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Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
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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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Memory is what makes us young or old.
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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
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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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[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
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Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.
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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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I have come too late into a world too old.
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In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
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One must not trifle with love
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
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The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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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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... 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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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
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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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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.
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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
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Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
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