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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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