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.…

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

— Alfred de Musset

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

— 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…

— Alfred De Musset

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alfred de Musset

“Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.”

— Alfred De Musset

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

— Alfred de Musset

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

— Alfred de Musset

“Laurette ! Laurette ! Ah ! je me sens plus lâche qu’une femme. Mon désespoir me tue ; il faut que je…

— Alfred de Musset

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

— Alfred de Musset

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

— Alfred de Musset

“A mulher que quer rejeitar responde apenas não. A mulher que explica quer que a convençam.”

— Alfred de Musset

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

— Alfred de Musset

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

“To give you an idea of my state of mind I can not do better than compare it to one of those…

— Alfred De Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

— Alfred de Musset

“Quelquefois, il y a des sympathies si réelles que, se rencontrant pour la première fois, on semble se retrouver.”

— Alfred de Musset