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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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 love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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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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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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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