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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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