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
wine men intoxicated
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
love men what-matters
[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?
men cities suffering
Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...
pain rain men
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted.
men names giving
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
teacher pain men
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.
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!
cost
The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.
discovery disgrace synonym
Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.
heart land devotion
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
alive poet young
Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.
dream reality want
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
space brain gone
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
christianity emperor ruined
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.