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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
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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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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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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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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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 study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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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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We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
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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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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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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
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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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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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What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?
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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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