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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

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Alfred de Musset

Respect your wife. Heap earth around that flower, but never drop any in the chalice.

Alfred de Musset

Beggars are the vermin that attach themselves to the rich.

Alfred de Musset

I have come too late into a world too old.

Alfred de Musset

Reason! I have lost it; and, were it to be returned to me, I would fly from it!

Alfred de Musset

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: "I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure"; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone.

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Musset

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Born: December 11, 1810

Died: May 2, 1857 (aged 46)

Bio: Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay 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.

Known for:

Lorenzaccio
No Trifling with Love (1834)
The Moods of Marianne
Fantasio

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