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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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