Alfred de Musset Quotes

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• I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

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  Hands, Walks, Knows

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• Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

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  Real, Ideas, Liberty

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• With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

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  Kissing, Unknown Worlds, Hug

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• Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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  Love, Dream, Sleep

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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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  Perfection, Intelligence, Triumph

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• The only truth is love beyond reason.

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  Love Is, Truth Is, Reason

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• Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

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  Inspirational, Time, Attitude

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• The only true language in the world is a kiss.

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  Love, Kissing, World

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• How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Humorous

  Alfred de Musset, Wilhelm Hauff (1925). “Two fables”

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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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  Love, Looks, Sometimes

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• life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

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  Dream, Sleep, Love Is

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• The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

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  Heart, Silence, Mouths

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• Great artists have no country.

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  Life, Country, Artist

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey”

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• Memory is what makes us young or old.

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  Memories, Young

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• In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

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  Dream, Regret, Bits

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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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  Love, Beautiful, Wine

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.50, tredition

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• The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

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  Glasses, Originality, Drink

  'La Coupe et les lévres'

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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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  Stars, Down And, Breathe

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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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  Dog, Love You, Doubt

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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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  Men, Ideas, Unknown Worlds

  Alfred de Musset, David Sices (1994). “Comedies & proverbs”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• I have come too late into a world too old.

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  Too Late, World, Late

  'Rollo' (1833)

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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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  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

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  Suffering, May, Illusion

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• The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

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  Heart, Land, Devotion

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• The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

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  Cost

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