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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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