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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 events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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