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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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