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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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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