Alfred de Musset

(1810–1857) Writer France

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Alfred de Musset was a writer from France, best known for Comédies et proverbes.

Quick Facts About Alfred de Musset

Born: December 11, 1810
Died: May 2, 1857
Nationality: France
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Comédies et proverbes
Known for: The Moods of Marianne

About Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was 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.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Concours général Knight of the Legion of Honour prize Maillé Latour Landry

Quotes by Alfred de Musset · Page 4

If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see…

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“I dolori passeggeri bestemmiano e accusano il cielo; i grandi dolori non accusano nè bestemmiano. Ascoltano.”

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“My heart, still full of her, traveled over her face, and found her there no more... I had thought to myself that…

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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

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“It is unfortunately true that there is in blasphemy a certain outlet which solaces the burdened heart. When an atheist, drawing his…

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“he, that same man, after having abandoned her, finds her after a night of orgie, pale and leaden, forever lost, with hunger…

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Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

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