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
sadness sad-life sorrow
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
ideas helping infinite
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
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.
causes sensations
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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.
christianity emperor ruined
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
dream reality want
Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?
fate moral pleasure
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!
mind lightning natural
Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.
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.
angel wings humanity
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings