Alfred de Musset Quote

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!


Comedies & proverbs (ed. Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1994)


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...

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...

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...

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...