Alfred de Musset
Writer
1810-12-11 – 1857-05-02
Alfred de Musset was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
Books by Alfred de Musset
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Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess
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Comédies et proverbes
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Lorenzaccio
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Quotes by Alfred de Musset
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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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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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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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Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest
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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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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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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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One must not trifle with love.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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Great artists have no country.
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To love, that's the point-what matters whom? What does the bottle matter provided we can be drunk?
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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 return makes one love the farewell.
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