Alfred de Musset - Life Quotes

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There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters.

Alfred de Musset

I am young; I have passed but the half of the road of life, and, already weary, I turn and look back!

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

Without woman the two extremities of life would be without succor, and the middle without pleasure.

Alfred de Musset

O future ages, what will be your fate? Glory, like a shadow, has returned to heaven; Love no longer exists; life is devastated; and man, left alone, believes but in Death.

Alfred de Musset

I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.

Alfred de Musset