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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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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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Silence alone is great all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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