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You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Decadence Decadent God Life

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Christianity Religion Sin

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Control Dictators Dreams

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Artists Creativity Decadence Decadent

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Conformity Imagination Mankind

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Happy Sad Sorrow

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

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

Alfred De Musset Blood Sun

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die, And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Bliss Death Voltaire

One must not trifle with love.

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset Must Trifle

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

~ Alfred De Musset

Alfred De Musset True Memorable Three
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