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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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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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