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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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