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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised 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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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