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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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 loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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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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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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