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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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 events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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