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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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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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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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