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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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