The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 1
Alfred de Musset · English
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The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 1
Alfred de Musset · English
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ALFRED DE MUSSET A poet has no right to play fast and loose with his genius. It does not belong to him, it belongs to the Almighty; it belongs to the world and to a coming generation. At thirty De Musset was already an old man, seeking in artificial stimuli the youth that would not spring again. Coming from a literary family the zeal of his house had eaten him up; his passion had burned itself out and his heart with it. He had done his work; it mattered little to him or to literatur
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