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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

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 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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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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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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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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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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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