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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.
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
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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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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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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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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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