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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
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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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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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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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.
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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