If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

Alfred de Musset

Flower, Eye, Heart

"Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn’t know it by heart

Alfred de Musset

Heart, Love Is, Play

Alfred de Musset, David Sices (1994). “Comedies & proverbs”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Alfred de Musset Quotes about Heart

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