I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.
Alfred de MussetI don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
Alfred de MussetYouโre like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youโre alone, so you think itโs a vast, magnificent panorama. You havenโt sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of Godโs creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep
Alfred de MussetAlas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!
Alfred de Musset