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I love the majesty of human suffering.

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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Suffering
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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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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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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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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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 events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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