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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
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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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 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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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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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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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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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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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? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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.
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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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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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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