Quotes from Alfred de Musset

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

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.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

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

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

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

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

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.