Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathaywas 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 December 1810
CountryFrance
teacher pain men
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
heart voice notes
The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
love-is soul earth
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.
worst-enemy faces doe
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
goodbye farewell bye-love
The return makes one love the farewell.
heart love-is play
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
suffering may illusion
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
love beautiful real
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.
cigar feels knows
Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.
heart love-is shrines
The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine
memories young
Memory is what makes us young or old.
love-is truth-is reason
The only truth is love beyond reason.
abuse adjectives romanticism
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
dream sleep love-is
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream