--- title: "1 Eclecticism Quotes By Alfred de Musset" description: "1 Eclecticism quotes by Alfred de Musset. Plus more from Alfred de Musset and more Eclecticism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/alfred-de-musset-4813_end-of-the-world_to-give-you-an-idea-of-my-state-of-mind_964691.jpg" --- > [“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we see nowadays in which are collected and mingled the furniture of all times and countries. Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/to-give-you-an-idea-of-my-state-of-mind-i-can-not-do-better-than/) [Alfred De Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/alfred-de-musset-4813_end-of-the-world_to-give-you-an-idea-of-my-state-of-mind_964691.jpg) ## More by Alfred de Musset > [Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/alas-everything-that-men-say-to-one-another-is-alike-the-ideas-they/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/a-lively-retrospect-summons-back-to-us-once-more-our-youth-with-vivid/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/the-mouth-keeps-silent-to-hear-the-heart-speak/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/the-costliest-women-are-the-ones-who-cost-nothing/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [“During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/during-the-wars-of-the-empire-while-husbands-and-brothers-were-in/) [Alfred De Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/i-don-t-know-where-my-road-is-going-but-i-know-that-i-walk-better/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [“As soon as we entered I plunged into the giddy whirl of the waltz. That delightful exercise has always been dear to me; I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/as-soon-as-we-entered-i-plunged-into-the-giddy-whirl-of-the-waltz/) [Alfred De Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/as-all-the-perfumes-of-the-vanished-dayrise-from-the-earth-still/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/it-was-one-of-those-somber-evenings-when-the-sighing-of-the-wind/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [“Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/your-name-merely-your-name-floods-my-brain-to-a-point-of-sweet-disgust/) [Alfred De Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/partake-of-love-as-a-temperate-man-partakes-of-wine-do-not-become/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/how-glorious-it-is-and-also-how-painful-to-be-an-exception/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [“Laurette ! Laurette ! Ah ! je me sens plus lâche qu’une femme. Mon désespoir me tue ; il faut que je pleure. ( RAZETTA )”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/laurette-laurette-ah-je-me-sens-plus-l-che-qu-une-femme-mon-d-sespoir/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/christianity-ruined-emperors-but-saved-peoples/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) > [life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/life-is-a-deep-sleep-of-which-love-is-the-dream/) [Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eclecticism/alfred-de-musset/#itemlist", "name": "1 Eclecticism Quotes By Alfred de Musset", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those rooms we see nowadays in which are collected and mingled the furniture of all times and countries. Our age has no impress of its own. We have impressed the seal of our time neither on our houses nor our gardens, nor on anything that is ours. On the street may be seen men who have their beards trimmed as in the time of Henry III, others who are clean-shaven, others who have their hair arranged as in the time of Raphael, others as in the time of Christ. So the homes of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: the antique, the gothic, the style of the Renaissance, that of Louis XIII, all pell-mell. 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