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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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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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