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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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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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