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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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.
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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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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 first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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