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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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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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