The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“Three elements entered into the life which offered itself to these children: behind them a past forever destroyed, still quivering on its… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
[I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation.… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“As soon as we entered I plunged into the giddy whirl of the waltz. That delightful exercise has always been dear to me; I… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing,… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.” — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image