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Alfred de Musset Quotes

One must not trifle with love.

Alfred de Musset

One must not trifle with love.

Tags: love, must, trifle

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Tags: happiness, happy, sad, sorrow

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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French: [al.fʁɛd də my.sɛ]; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century).

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Tags: poetry, true, memorable, three

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Alfred de Musset

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Tags: language, romanticism, writing

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

Alfred de Musset

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

Tags: bliss, death, voltaire

Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.

Alfred de Musset

Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.

Tags: christianity

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Alfred de Musset

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Tags: experience

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Alfred de Musset

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Tags: perfection

To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we see nowadays in which are collected and mingled the furniture of all times and countries. Our age h...

Alfred de Musset

To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we see nowadays in which are collected and mingled the furniture of all times and countries. Our age h...