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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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