The Confession of a Child of the Century
A source page for quotes linked to Alfred de Musset.
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Source: On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Source: On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Source: Lorenzaccio
“Le coeur le plus aimant n'est qu'une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.”
“Io non conto i giorni - diceva - ma i piaceri".”
Source: Le due amanti e altre novelle
“Je commence à avoir trente ans, et je perds le talent de vivre.”
Source: Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée : Suivi de Un caprice
“The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.”
“Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.”
“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”
“The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.”
“Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.”
“Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.”
“Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.”
“Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.”
“The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.”
“Great artists have no country.”
Source: Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey
“Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.”
“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
Source: Two fables
“The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine”
Source: Poems [tr. by A. Lang, C. C. Hayden, Marie A. Clarke, George Santayana, Emily S. Forman
Source: Comedies & proverbs
Source: Comedies & proverbs
“Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest”
Source: Fantasio and other plays
Source: Fantasio and other plays
“Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!”
Source: Fantasio and other plays
Source: Fantasio and other plays
Source: Fantasio and other plays
Source: Confession of a child of the century
“I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them”
“A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.”
“In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.”