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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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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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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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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