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.
-- Alfred de Vigny
   
Alfred de Vigny   Name:
Alfred de Vigny
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
French
Birth:
March 27, 1797
Death:
September 17, 1863
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