Alfred de Musset

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Life is a sleep; love is its dream. You will have lived if you have loved.”

“What does the bottle matter, as long as one has the intoxication.”

“The only true language in the world is a kiss.”

“Ah! Strike your heart, that is where genius lies.”

“I have often suffered, I have sometimes been mistaken, but I have loved.”

“Perfection is no more made for us than immensity.”

“Memory is the perfume of the soul.”

“Nothing makes us so great as a great sorrow.”

“One does not trifle with love.”

“My glass is not large, but I drink from my glass.”

“Man is an apprentice, pain is his master.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“Life is a rose whose every petal is an illusion and every thorn a reality.”

“Great artists have no country.”

“Glory is the sun of the dead.”

“Jealousy gives birth to the monster it fears.”

“A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.”

“In spite of myself, the infinite torments me.”