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
dog love-you doubt
Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.
glasses originality drink
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
heart silence mouths
The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.
wisdom pain humorous
How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
men unknown-worlds ideas
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!
hands walks knows
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
dream regret bits
In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.
perfection doe triumph
Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.
women blow wind
Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.
love kissing world
The only true language in the world is a kiss.
real ideas liberty
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
love dream sleep
Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
love looks sometimes
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.
kissing unknown-worlds world
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.