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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
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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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