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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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 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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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