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Alfred de Musset Quotes

Alfred de Musset quotes

French Writer, Playwright, Poet December 11, 1810 – May 2, 1857

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Alfred de Musset quote: "life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream"
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream Alfred de Musset
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 Alfred de Musset
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 Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset quote: "The return makes one love the farewell."
The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset quote: "The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is..."
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset quote: "One must not trifle with love."
One must not trifle with love. Alfred de Musset
During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation. Conceived between battles, reared amid the noises of war, thousands of children looked about them with dull eyes while testing their limp muscles. From time to time their blood-stained fathers would appear, raise them to their gold-laced bosoms, then place them on the ground and remount their horses. Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset quote: "There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day..."
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. Alfred de Musset
It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his watch, gave God a quarter of an hour in which to strike him dead, it is certain that it was a quarter of an hour of wrath and of atrocious joy. It was the paroxysm of despair, a nameless appeal to all celestial powers; it was a poor, wretched creature squirming under the foot that was crushing him; it was a loud cry of pain. Who knows? In the eyes of Him who sees... Alfred de Musset
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. Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset quote: "The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know..."
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset quote: "Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change..."
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to? Alfred de Musset
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
Alfred de Musset quote: "Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher."
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher. Alfred de Musset
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 Alfred de Musset

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