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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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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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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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