Alfred de Musset Quotes

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Anyone who wants to have a perfect democracy is dreaming.

We were trying to achieve miracles and reduce the world to what it cannot be.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

common sense is the enemy of romance