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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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 but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
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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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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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