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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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