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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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 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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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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