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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
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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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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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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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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
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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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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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