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

Christianity ruined emperors but saved peoples.

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

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

— Alfred de Musset

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

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

— Alfred de Musset

One must not trifle with love.

— Alfred de Musset

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