Alfred de Musset
10 quotes
Biography
"One must not trifle with love."
"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"
"Great artists have no country."
"Je ne puis;—malgré moi l'infini me tourmente."
"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow."
"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."
"Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?"
"Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples."
"Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows."
"Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness."