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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 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 a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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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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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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