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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
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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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