How glorious it is—and also how painful—to be an exception.
—Alfred de Musset
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Experience
Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.—It opened the palaces of Constantinople to the barbarians, but it opened the doors of cottages to the consoling angels of Christ.
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Christianity
Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Vanity
Memory is what makes us young or old.
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Memories, One liners
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.
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Perfection
It is easy to promise, and alas! how easy to forget!
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Promise
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
—Alfred de Musset
Topics: Sadness, Sorrow
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