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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.
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
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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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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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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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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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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