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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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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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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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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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