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Alfred de Musset

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Biography - Alfred de Musset:

French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
Born: 1810 - Died: 1857
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.
Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles



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Source: À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles

Wikisource - Musset - Premières Poésies (fr) 



Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La vie est un sommeil, l'amour en est le rêve,
Et vous aurez vécu, si vous avez aimé.
Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles

German
Das Leben ist Schlaf, dessen Traum die Liebe ist. Du wirst gelebt haben, wenn du geliebt haben wirst.
Alfred de Musset - À quoi rêvent les jeunes filles



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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare - The Tempest

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo - Le roi s'amuse



Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.
Jean de La Fontaine - Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon / 





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Love, and do what you will.
Augustine of Hippo - Homilies on the First Epistle of John / 






All about love...




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 






All about life...




Quotes for: sleep


Quotes

Quotes for: sleep


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus / 





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon / 





Sleep is the best meditation.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama  / 





Sleep and Death are twin brothers.
Homer - Iliad / 





Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi






All sleep quotes...




Quotes for: dream


Quotes

Quotes for: dream


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 





Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung / 





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams / 





I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau / 





Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle / 





The dream is stronger than experience.
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu / 






All dream quotes...




Quotes

Alfred de Musset also said...


One must not trifle with love.
Alfred de Musset / 





Great artists have no country.
Alfred de Musset / 





Everything that was is no longer; everything that will be is not yet. Look no further for the secret of our ills.
Alfred de Musset / 





Everyone has his own glasses. But no one knows for sure what color the lenses are.
Alfred de Musset / 





All men are not capable of great things, but all are sensitive to great things.
Alfred de Musset / 





An unhappy nation makes great artists.
Alfred de Musset / 







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