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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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