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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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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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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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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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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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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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 if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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