Quotes from Alfred de Musset

Malgré moi, l'infini me tourmente

Le coeur le plus aimant n'est qu'une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.

Je commence à avoir trente ans, et je perds le talent de vivre.

L'absence ni le temps ne sont rien quand on aime.

We all have our spectacles, but no one can tell to a shade the colour of the glass.

Io non conto i giorni - diceva - ma i piaceri".

Regardez moi ce petit corps maigre, ce lendemain d'orgie ambulant.

Ah! Frappe-toi le coeur, c'est là qu'est le génie".

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Great artists have no country.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

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!

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you, Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.

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

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

The return makes one love the farewell.

One must not trifle with love

The only truth is love beyond reason.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.