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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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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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