93 Quotes by Alfred De Musset

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

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

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.

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

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

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