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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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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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