Alfred de Musset Quotes - Page 3

• El cristianismo arruinó emperadores, pero salvó pueblos.

  Alfred de Musset

  Christianity, Emperor, Ruined

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• I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

  Alfred de Musset

  Infinity, Helping, Spite

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• No podía distinguir claramente lo que pasaba por mi cabeza; me parecía que estaba bajo la influencia de un sueño horrible y que no tenía más que despertar para encontrarme curado; a veces me parecía que toda mi vida había sido un sueño, ridículo e infantil, cuya falsedad acababa de ser revelada.

  Alfred de Musset

  Dream, Self, Ridiculous

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.45, tredition

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

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  Order, Sin, Priests

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

  Alfred de Musset

  Paper, Letters, Matter

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• Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

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  Men, Cities, Suffering

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.65, tredition

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• I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

  Alfred de Musset

  Ideas, Helping, Infinite

  'Premiéres Poèsies' 'L'Espoir en Dieu'

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• Hay tentaciones más atractivas que los ángeles. Libertad, patriotismo, el bien de la humanidad - palabras como esas son las escamas de plata de las alas llameantes del tentador.

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  Angel, Wings, Temptation

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

  Alfred de Musset

  Promise, Forget, Easy

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• Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

  Alfred de Musset

  Wine, Thinking, Yield

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.49, tredition

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• Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

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  Mind, Lightning, Natural

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• 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.

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  Past, Curiosity, World

  "Confession d'un Enfant du Siécle". Book by Alfred de Musset, 1836.

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• Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

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  Dream, Reality, Want

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• A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

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  Joy, Vivid, Retrospect

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• Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

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  Vanity, Dignity, Vulnerable

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• 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.

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  Pain, Rain, Men

  Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.45, tredition

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• 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.

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  Space, Brain, Gone

  Alfred de Musset (1923). “Confession of a child of the century”

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

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  Blood, Giving, Needs

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• La sangre de mi patria riega una planta mágica que cura todos los males. Esa planta es el arte, y a veces el arte necesita la corrupción como una especie de abono

  Alfred de Musset

  Art, Blood, Water

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

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  Fate, Moral, Pleasure

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