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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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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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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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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?
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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 true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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