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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

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 study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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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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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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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