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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
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him but he created it true with a truth all its own.
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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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