Alfred de Musset quotes

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. (Alfred de Musset)
Great artists have no country. View quote
Alfred de Musset
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. View quote
Alfred de Musset
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near. View quote
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. View quote
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The return makes one love the farewell. View quote
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. View quote
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One must not trifle with love. View quote
Alfred de Musset
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world. View quote
Alfred de Musset
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is. View quote
Alfred de Musset
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. (Alfred de Musset)
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. View quote
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As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew. View quote
Alfred de Musset
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English. View quote
Alfred de Musset
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray Old love is born anew. View quote
Alfred de Musset