"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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Source : Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

Alfred de Vigny

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“I donâ€™t smoke, I donâ€™t drink, I donâ€™t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but thatâ€™s just me. Thatâ€™s how I live my life. That stuff never appealed to me and I never understood getting so messed up that you canâ€™t even walk home or remember the previous night. I choose to live my life without it.”
“Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.”

Source : Comments after President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, January 20, 1961.
“It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything-a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing, tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood, landscape gardening. But somehow people wait passively for success to come to them, living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.”
“When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”
“But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.”
“I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinctionâ€¦You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game.”
“Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.”

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