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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.
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
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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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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