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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Alfred de Vigny
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
Alfred de Vigny
I love the majesty of human suffering.
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Alfred de Vigny
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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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
Alfred de Vigny
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Alfred de Vigny
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?
Alfred de Vigny
Only silence is great all else is weakness.
Alfred de Vigny
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.
Alfred de Vigny
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Alfred de Vigny
