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“Great artists have no country.”

Alfred de Musset Lorenzaccio

L’Orfèvre, Lorenzaccio (1834).

“So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.”

Alfred de Musset

Remembrance.
Context: As all the perfumes of the vanished day
Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew
So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray
Old love is born anew.

“I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.”

Alfred de Musset

Je ne puis;—malgré moi l'infini me tourmente. <br class="br"> L'Espoir en Dieu http://books.google.com/books?id=AyxCAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Malgr%C3%A9+moi+l'infini+me+tourmente%22&pg=PA522#v=onepage, Revue des deux Mondes (1838).

“The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII… Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period… so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.”

Alfred de Musset

This quotation is useful for explanations of the period of art nouveau, and the causes of the art movement.
Confession d'un Enfant du Siécle (1836)(translation)