Alfred de Musset

Quotes by Alfred de Musset

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Writer · French · 1810–1857

French writer (1810–1857)

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“There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings”
— Alfred de Musset
devil liberty patriotism temptation

“Look at the sun! It’s dry, it’s dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I’ll give it blood!”
— Alfred de Musset
blood sun

“Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.”
— Alfred de Musset
christianity

“As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.”
— Alfred de Musset

“Great artists have no country.”
— Alfred de Musset

“Je ne puis;—malgré moi l'infini me tourmente.”
— Alfred de Musset

“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 ...”
— Alfred de Musset