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Poetry is the disease of the brain.

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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Brain

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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
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No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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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 a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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?
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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