The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from ev… - Alfred de Musset

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The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.

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About Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century).

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Alternative Names: Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay Alfred De Musset Louis Charles Alfred Musset Alfred de Musset-Pathay Alfred Louis Charles de Musset
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في ذلك الحين، عندما ترفعون رؤوسكم لتؤدوا الشكر لله، أيها الأحرار، لأنه أوجدكم في عصر الحصاد، افتكروا فينا نحن الراحلين وتذكروا أن ما تتمتعون به من عناء وسلام قد كلفنا كثيرًا من الشقاء.
ترحموا علينا أكثر مما تترحمون على سائر من تقدموكم في مراحل الأجيال، لأننا تحملنا أوجاع أجدادكم دون أن نتمتع بما كان لهم من عزاء...

Pourquoi promenez-vous ces spectres de lumière
Devant le rideau noir de nos nuits sans sommeil,
Puisqu'il faut qu'ici-bas tout songe ait son réveil,
Et puisque le désir se sent cloué sur terre,
Comme un aigle blessé qui meurt dans la poussière,
L'aile ouverte, et les yeux fixés sur le soleil ?

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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

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