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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
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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Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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