Alfred de Musset Short Quotes

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I have come too late into a world too old.

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Beggars are the vermin that attach themselves to the rich.

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Wine colors the face, to prevent the appearance of modesty.

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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

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Before marriage, woman is a queen; after marriage, a subject.

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The only good thing left to me is that I have sometimes wept.

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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

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Suspense, of all the torments, is the most difficult to endure.

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Human reason may cure illusions, but it can not cure sufferings.

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In love, which is the best rewarded: respect, or certain offenses?

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

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A woman forgives everything, but the fact that you do not covet her.

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To fall in love is not difficult: the difficulty lies in telling it.

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To remember — to forget: alas! this is what makes us young or old.

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The miser is poor to the extent of all that he has not yet acquired.

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We always find wit and merit in those who look at us with admiration.

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Youth and Will may resist excess, but Nature takes revenge in silence.

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There is no bitterer grief than a happy remembrance in a day of sorrow.

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Prospective happiness! it is perhaps the only real happiness in the world.

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The remembrance of the tears I have shed is the only good left me in the world.

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

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

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How glorious it is, but how painful it is also, to be exceptional in this world!

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The soul, ray of Heaven, invisible prisoner, suffers in its dungeon cruel sorrows.

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

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The weakness of woman gives to some men a victory that their merit would never gain.

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O God! thy pity must have been profound when this miserable world emerged from chaos!

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Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to reopen.

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I hate hypocrites, insolent comedians, who put on their virtues with their white gloves.

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Look at the sun! It's dry, it's dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I'll give it blood!

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