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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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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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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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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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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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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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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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