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Alfred de Musset

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

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.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

Life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives.

Alfred de Musset

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Alfred de Musset

How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.

Alfred de Musset