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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.
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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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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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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The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
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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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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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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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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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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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But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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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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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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Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.
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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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Poetry is the disease of the brain.
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