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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized 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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