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
promise forget easy
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
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.
past curiosity world
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.
stars down-and breathe
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
mind lightning natural
Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
joy vivid retrospect
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
wine men intoxicated
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.