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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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