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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.
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
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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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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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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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