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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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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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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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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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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 existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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